A/HRC/4/33/Add.1
Page 123
Para
105.
Country
Date
30/08/06
Type
JUA
Mandate
WGAD;
HRD;
TOR;
Allegations transmitted
Intelligence police made repeated telephone calls
to the family's house, demanding that they reveal
the whereabouts of Mehdi Babaei Ajabshir. On 29
June 2006, Ali Babaei Ajabshir was released, on
condition that he would convince his brother
Mehdi to report to the Tabriz Ministry of
Information. On 11 July 2006, witnesses told
Mehdi Babaei Ajabshir’s family that he had been
arrested in the street by Ministry of Information
officials. His family did not know his whereabouts
until 21 July 2006, when he telephoned them and
told them that he was at a detention facility run by
the Ministry of Information in Tabriz. He has had
no contact with his family since and no access to
his lawyer. It is not known whether he remains
detained at the Ministry of Information detention
facility, or whether he has been transferred to
Tabriz prison.
Ali Khodabakhshi, also known as Elyaz Yekanli,
a prominent activist for the cultural, social and
political rights of the Azeri Turkish community in
Iran. On or around 8 June 2006, he was arrested
at his home in the Village of Kahriz Yekan, in
northwestern Iran. He was detained for 30 days in
solitary confinement, at a detention facility run by
the Ministry of Information (Etelaat) in the city of
Tabriz. During this time, he did not have access to
his family or lawyer, and his family did not know
where he was detained. He was beaten and given
electric shocks to force him to make a confession.
He was subsequently transferred to Qirkhlar
Prison in Marand, where he is still being held. In
Qirkhlar Prison, he is detained in a cell with other
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