A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 120 Para 101. Country Date 22/06/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; HRD; TOR; Allegations transmitted Mohajer was interrogated by judiciary agents of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran for 10 hours. In the morning of 12 June, security forces arrested another human rights activist, Shahla Entessari, at her work. On 12 June, before the demonstration started, the security forces started to beat the participants with batons, sprayed with tear gas and color spray, and took them into custody. A spokesperson for the judiciary confirmed that security forces arrested 70 people, including 42 women, to prevent the demonstration from taking place. Those who were arrested at the demonstration site include: Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoiniha, former member of the parliament and human rights activist; Jila Baniyaghoub, Delaram Ali, Samira Sadri, Bahareh Hedayat, Leila Mohseni, Bahman Ahmadi Amooi, Siamak Taheri and Farahnaz Sharifi. They were charged with participation in an illegal assembly. Mr Abbas Lisani (Leysanli) of Ardabil, an activist for the rights of Iranian Azeri Turks. Mr Lisani was arrested on 3 June 2006 by plainclothes agents of the intelligence service (Etelaat) and has been in detention without charge since then. The approximately 30 agents that arrested Mr Lisani entered the house by shooting the lock off the door and then proceeded to beat him in front of his wife and two sons. They did not show an arrest warrant or other document justifying the arrest, nor did they inform him of the charges against him. Mr Lisani’s lawyer, Mr Saleh Kamrani, (subject of a communication dated 20 June 2006, see above) was arrested on Government Response

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