E/CN.4/2001/66 page 122 scalp in the process. He was beaten so severely, in particular with a metal cable, that he lost consciousness. His head was allegedly forced into a drain full of excrement. Furthermore, it is reported that his mother and sister were brought to the detention centre, where Ahmad Batebi could hear his mother’s voice. He reportedly confessed to charges of creating civil unrest and inciting others to do the same. When he was later taken to the Revolutionary Court, it is alleged that on one occasion he raised the issue of his torture during detention. However, it was reportedly not investigated by the judge. 622. Akbar Mohammadi, brother of Manuchehr Mohammadi, a leading member of the National Association of Students and Graduates, was reportedly detained in Evin prison. He was allegedly tortured by being hung upside down and flogged on the soles of his feet with metal cables. He reportedly lost two toenails. He reportedly saw a prison doctor who referred him to hospital for medical treatment. However, he did not receive such treatment. He was allegedly sentenced to death by a Tehran Revolutionary Court. His death sentence was commuted on 30 April to 15 years’ imprisonment. 623. By letter dated 14 March 2000, the Government replied that any unofficial information regarding the confirmation of a death sentence against Akbar Mohammadi as had been published by some newspapers was being denied and that the case was still under consideration by the judiciary. 624. By letter dated 8 November 2000, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1998 regarding which no reply had been received. Urgent appeals and replies received 625. On 23 February 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on behalf of Akbar Mohammadi, one of the three students sentenced to death in September 1999 by a Tehran Revolutionary Court in connection with the July 1999 student demonstrations, who may face imminent execution. His sentence was reportedly upheld by the Supreme Court and can only be commuted by the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was reported that he had been beaten; he was allegedly whipped on the soles of his feet with a cable. 626. On 12 April 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Abbas Amir-Entezam, Deputy Prime Minister and Spokesman of the 1979 interim Government of Mehdi Bazargan, on behalf of whom the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran intervened on 21 February 2000, 30 July 1999, 22 January 1999 and 18 September 1998. He was reportedly arrested on 8 September 1998 at his home in Tehran and is held in Evin prison, north of Tehran. He is said to be in urgent need of appropriate medical attention for kidney failure, a ruptured eardrum and loss of hearing in one ear, allegedly as the result of his long detention and repeated subjection to torture.