A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 122 Para 87. Country Date 20/12/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; TOR Allegations transmitted December, Mr. Jihani began refusing to speak. On the same day, his family was able to visit him. On 6 December, Mr. Jihani was moved from Mahabad Prison to an unknown location, possibly Oromiyeh Prison. On 12 December, Mr. Jihani’s family received a phone call from an alleged member of the Mahabad branch intelligence services who told them that Mr. Jihani died of a heart attack after falling into a coma. On 13 December, the family was received a phone call from him but he was unable to tell them anything about his whereabouts and he sounded very weak. Mr. Jihani has been arrested nine times since 1999, and is said to have been tortured while previously in detention. Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, and followers, namely Mostafa Sheybani Farahani, Yaghoub Sadeghi, Reza Mohseni, Majid Alasti, Mohammad Ansari, Hossin Yazdani, Kambiz Hosseini, Azin Ghotbi, Hamid Sayyadi, Mohammad Reza Sadeghi, Abbas Barghbani, Morteza Abbas Rahim, Ali Shahrabi, Mehrdad Souri, Ahmad Karimiyan, Ali Dah Hijdah, Ali Reza Montazer Sabe, Msoud Samavati, Ali Bahrami, Ramezan Rahimi, Hasan Harischiyan, Seyyed Jafar Seyyed Monir, and Ms. Narges Ghaffar Zadeh. On 8 October 2006, Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi was arrested at his home. Since 28 September 2006, approximately 300 of his followers have also been arrested, including the Ayatollah’s 80-year-old mother and his sixmonth-old grandson. Tear-gas and electroshock Government response

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