A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
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Para
Country
Date
Type
Mandate
92.
26/04/06
JAL
TOR;
VAW;
93.
04/05/06
JUA
WGAD;
HRD;
TOR;
94.
08/05/06
JUA
WGAD;
FRDX;
TOR;
Allegations transmitted
family home in Ahwaz by bulldozers following her
arrest. No charges are known to have been raised
against any of the women and children detained.
Leyla Mafi (subject of previous transmitted
communications, E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, paras. 97
and 112). On 27 March 2005, the Supreme Court
overturned the death sentence, but upheld the
sentence of flogging. The case was sent back to
the Court of First Instance in Arak for a retrial. In
October 2004, Leyla Mafi was acquitted of the
charge of incest (which carries the death penalty),
and of controlling a brothel. However, she was
convicted of an “unchaste act with a next of kin
(other than fornication)” and was sentenced to 99
lashes. In February 2006, she was subjected to
99 lashes at the headquarters of the Justice
Department in the City of Arak. She was
subsequently moved to a women’s rehabilitation
centre in Tehran, where she is obliged to stay for
eight months.
Mohammad Suwaidi, aged 18, a member of
Iran’s Arab minority and an activist for the rights of
the Arab minority. On 16 March 2006,
Mohammad Suwaidi was arrested near the border
with Iraq. He is currently held in incommunicado
detention. After he was arrested he was taken to a
Ministry of Intelligence detention facility and
subsequently taken for interrogation to Section 2
of the Prosecutor’s Office in Ahvaz City, in the
Province of Khuzestan.
Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher,
scholar and the author of several books on
philosophy and modernity in Iran. On 2 May 2006,
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