A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 126 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Badawi, Toameh Chaab, Nasser Farajolah Kia, Majid Mazaal, Jalil Moghadam, Mehdi Saad Nasab, Ms Hoda Hedayati Rezaie (Hawashemi), Sharif Asei Nawaseri, Jalil Boraihi, Mohammad Sawari, and Abdolreza Salman Delfi. On 9 November 2006, the Head of the Judiciary in Khuzestan Province, Mr Abbas Jaafari Dowlatabadi, announced that the Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence of ten of the defendants mentioned above, namely Ali Motirijejad, Abdullh Solymani, Mlik Banitamimt, Abolamir Farjaolh Chaabi, Mohammad Chaabpour, Khalaf Khozairi, Alireza Asakereh, Majed Albog Hbaish, Ghasem Salamat, and Abdolreza Sanawati. Iranian media have announced that the confessions of the 10 men will be broadcasted on Khuzestan TV tonight, 13 November 2006, and that their executions will be held in public, probably on 14 or 15 November 2006. All ten men were tortured into making false confessions. Their lawyers were not allowed to see them prior to their trial and they were given access to the prosecution case only hours before the start of the trial. The trial was held in secret. The lawyers for the defendants, Khalil Saeedi, Mansur Atashneh, Dr Abdulhasan Haidari, Jawad Tariri, Faisal Saeedi and Taheri Nasab, were arrested for having complained about violations of the relevant laws in the course of the trials and charged with threatening national security. Government Response