A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 130 Para Country Date Type Mandate VAW 99. 09/07/07 JUA HRD; IJL; TOR 100. 10/07/07 JUA WGAD; FRDX; HRD; TOR Allegations transmitted para. 100), a women's rights defender from Tehran University. The Tehran Revolutionary Court convicted Ms. Delaram Ali on charges of “Propaganda against the System” and “Disturbing Public Order.” On 12 June 2006 in Haft Tir Square, she participated in a peaceful demonstration for better recognition of women's rights and the removal of discriminatory clauses against women from Iranian law. Ms. Delaram Ali was sentenced to two years and 10 months’ imprisonment and 10 lashes. The sentence has not been suspended and could be carried out at any time. Several other persons arrested during the demonstration have also been convicted and sentenced, but had their sentences suspended. Ali Shakeri, a peace activist and founding board member of the University of California, Irvine, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and Kian Tajbakhsh, a social scientist at the New School in New York, who has worked as a consultant for the Open Society Institute and the World Bank. Since early May 2007, Mr. Shakeri and Dr. Tajbakhsh have been held in section 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran on the charge of “acting against national security by engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic through spying on behalf of foreigners”. Both men are being detained incommunicado and denied access to their lawyers and families. Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand (subject of a previously transmitted communication, A/HRC/4/27/Add.1, para. 294) the chair of the Kurdish Human Rights Organization (RMMK) Government response