A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 113 Para Country Date Type Mandate 89. 14/03/06 JAL VAW; HRD; TOR 90. 12/04/06 JUA WGAD; FRDX; TOR Allegations transmitted Government Response Women’s rights activists in Tehran. On 8 March 2006, anti-riot police officers, Revolutionary Guards and plain clothes agents surrounded Tehran’s Daneshjoo Park at 4 pm They ordered hundreds of women and men who had gathered to celebrate International Women’s Day to disperse. In response, the crowd staged a sit-in and sang the anthem of the women’s rights movement. The security officers then proceeded to dump the contents of garbage bins on the women’s heads and beat the persons assembled with batons, including poet Simin Behbahani, aged over 70. The security forces also arrested foreign journalists and confiscated their photographic equipment and video footage before releasing them. The Commander of the security forces stated that the gathering was held without an official permit and that the security forces had to prevent the gatherin taking on a political dimension. Members of the Kurdish community including By letter dated 29/06/06, the Government Azad Rasoul, Abu Bakr Bapiri, Khezer reported that Khaled Shirzad, Azad Rasouli, Sa'idnezhad, Mohammad Saleh Kukhashireh, Abubakr Bapiri (alias Abubakr Tikan), Avat Khaled Shirzad, Abu Bakr Tikan Tapeh, Avat Qorayshi, Dara Qoreyshi, Kamel Salimian Qorayshi, Mohammad Amin Salimian, (alias Ribvar Salimian) Sa’adollah Soltanian, Sa'adollah Soltanian, Khezer Mouloudi, Rezgar Ismaeil Salimian (alias Rezgar Salimian) have Salimian, Dara Qorayshi, Ribvar Salimian and been charged with “cooperation with the Kamel Salimian. On 19 and 20 March 2006, terrorist group of Kumeleh”. Mr Azad Rasouli has been in possession of illegal weapons. security forces arrested the above-mentioned They have all been released on bail. Khezer persons and other unidentified men, possibly Sa’idnezhad (alias Khezer Mouloudi), numbering more than eighty, from the Kurdish Mohammad Saleh Khkhashireh and community in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. Mohammad Amin Salimian have been charged They were arrested at their homes and are now