A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 127 Para 109. Country Date 14/11/06 Type JUA Mandate Allegations transmitted WGAD; FRDX; HRD; TOR; Abbas Leysanli (or Lisani), aged 39 (subject of a communication dated 22 June 2006, see above). On 27 September 2006, one day before he was released from the Erdebil State Prison on bail, Mr Leysanli was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment and fifty lashes by the Penal Court N° 105 of the General Penal Court of the Province of Erdebil, in relation to his participation in the mass protests on 27 May 2006 in Erdebil. The Court found him guilty of “disturbing the peace and creating public disorder” and “participating in the destruction and burning of public and private property”. On 26 October 2006 Mr Leysanli filed a written appeal against the sentence of the court of first instance. The Erdebil Appeal Court, Branch 1 of the Erdebil Province, in closed session, increased the sentence for disturbing the peace and creating public disorder from ten to twelve months of imprisonment, making the sentence in total 18 months. The fifty lashes have been retained by the court. On 31 October 2006, Mr Leysanli was rearrested at his workplace in Erdebil by plainclothes security agents and taken to the Erdebil State Prison, where he has been detained ever since. No formal statement regarding the authority upon which he was arrested and detained has been issued to Mr Leysanli. His re-arrest is possibly related to his conviction on appeal. Mr Leysanli suffers from poor health, as a result of ill-treatment during previous periods of detention. Government Response