A/HRC/28/68/Add.1 sentenced to execution without due process of law, has violated their right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, as provided by articles 1 and 16 of the CAT. He urges to government of Iran to commute their death sentences and to bring them out of solitary confinement, as well as to investigate and prosecute State agents responsible for their mistreatment. (i) JUA 14/07/2014 Case No. IRN 13/2014 State Reply: None to date Allegations concerning the imminent execution of Messrs. Hamed Ahmadi, Shahram Ahmadi, Alam Barmashti, Jahangir Dehghani, Jamshid Dehghani, Seyed Shaho Ebrahimi, Varia Ghaderifard, Mohammad Gharibi, Seyed Abdol Hadi Hosseini, Farzad Honarjo, Mohammad Keyvan Karimi, Taleb Maleki, Kamal Molaee, Pouria Mohammadi, Keyvan Momenifard, Sedigh Mohammadi, Seyed Jamal Mousavi, Teymour Naderizadeh, Farshid Naseri, Ahmad Nasiri, Borzan Nasrollahzadeh, Idris Nemati, Omid Peyvand, Bahman Rahimi, Mokhtar Rahimi, Mohammadyavar Rahimi, Abdorahman Sangani, Amjad Salehi, Behrouz Shahnazari, Arash Sharifi, Kaveh Sharifi, Farzad Shahnazari, and Kaveh Veysi, all Kurdish Sunni Iranians. 239. The Special Rapporteur regrets that the Government of Iran has not replied to the present communication, thereby failing to cooperate with the mandate issued by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 25/13, and to comply with its obligation, under international customary law, to investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as codified, inter alia, in the Convention against Torture (CAT). 240. It is alleged that between 2009 and 2010, thirty-three Kurdish Sunni men were detained, subjected to substantial physical and psychological torture including mock death and months of solitary confinement, and were sentenced to death. The death sentences of eight of the thirty-three men, Messers. Hamed Ahmadi, Jameshed Dehghani, Jahangir Dehghani, Komal Molaye, Seyed Jamal Mousavi, Abdorahman Sangani, Sedigh Mohammadi and Seyed Hadi Hosseini, have been sent to The Office for the Implementation of Sentences. The other twenty-five men, one of whom, Mr. Borzan Nasrollahzadeh, is reported to have been a minor at the time of his alleged crime, remain on death row, pending review by the Supreme Court. 241. In his interim report to the General Assembly of 5 August 2011 (A/66/268), the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment defined solitary confinement, in accordance with the Istanbul Statement on the Use and Effects Solitary Confinement, as the physical and social isolation of individuals who are confined in their cells for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day. Due to clearly documented harmful mental health effects of solitarily confinement, it may only be used where absolutely necessary for as short a time as possible. Additionally, Paragraph 6 of General Comment No. 20 of the Human Rights Committee states that prolonged solitary confinement of the detained or imprisoned person, may amount to acts prohibited by article 7 of the ICCPR. 242. The thirty-three execution sentences were reportedly ordered without allowing any of the men access to a lawyer. Article 5 of the United Nations Safeguard Protecting the Rights of those Facing Death Penalty states that capital punishment may only be imposed following trials that scrupulously respect the guarantees of due process and fair trial as stipulated in international human rights law. Article 6(2) of the ICCPR provides that countries which have not abolished the death penalty may only impose it for the most serious crimes. Additionally, article 6 (4) of the ICCPR establishes that anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence. Furthermore, any judgment imposing the death sentence and execution of juvenile offenders is incompatible with the international legal obligations undertaken under Iran’s Government under various 41