A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 125 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted and mentally ill-treated while in detention. As a result, he carries blood in his urine, his liver and kidneys are not functioning and he lost all of his teeth. Furthermore, he is paralysed because his spine has been damaged. 91. 16/03/07 JUA WGAD; FRDX; HRD; TOR Esma’il Javadi, a 31-year-old, journalist, Ebulfezl Alilu, a shopkeeper, and Ramin Sadeghi, all Azeri Turks and linguistic rights activists. The three men were arrested at around the time of several peaceful demonstrations marking International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2007. Mr. Esma’il Javadi was arrested on 18 February 2007 in the city of Orumiyeh. He is currently being detained in a detention facility under the auspices of the Ministry of Intelligence in the Dokkuz Pille area of Orumiyeh and has been ill-treated in detention. Mr. Javadi is in poor health and in urgent need of medical care. Family members who were permitted to meet with him have been threatened by security officials and told that they should not speak about Mr. Javadi to anyone. Mr. Ebulfezl Alilu was in a group of around 50 people who were arrested in Orumiyeh on 21 February 2007. Authorities have closed his shop at Orumiyeh Bazaar. Mr. Alilu is currently being detained at Dokkuz Pille detention facility, Government response illness in prison, lack of access to lawyer as well as to his family are categorically denied. Mr. Mazraeh has been in good health. He has, frequently, met his family, and has made phone calls to them. Besides he has enjoyed two times of city leave (out of prison, under police control) in December 2006 and March 2007. This case is presently going through investigations and legal proceedings in the competent court with the information and presence of Mr. Mazraeh’s defence lawyers at different stages. No final verdict is, yet issued.