A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 115 Para Country Date Type Mandate 92. 26/04/06 JAL TOR; VAW; 93. 04/05/06 JUA WGAD; HRD; TOR; 94. 08/05/06 JUA WGAD; FRDX; TOR; Allegations transmitted family home in Ahwaz by bulldozers following her arrest. No charges are known to have been raised against any of the women and children detained. Leyla Mafi (subject of previous transmitted communications, E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, paras. 97 and 112). On 27 March 2005, the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence, but upheld the sentence of flogging. The case was sent back to the Court of First Instance in Arak for a retrial. In October 2004, Leyla Mafi was acquitted of the charge of incest (which carries the death penalty), and of controlling a brothel. However, she was convicted of an “unchaste act with a next of kin (other than fornication)” and was sentenced to 99 lashes. In February 2006, she was subjected to 99 lashes at the headquarters of the Justice Department in the City of Arak. She was subsequently moved to a women’s rehabilitation centre in Tehran, where she is obliged to stay for eight months. Mohammad Suwaidi, aged 18, a member of Iran’s Arab minority and an activist for the rights of the Arab minority. On 16 March 2006, Mohammad Suwaidi was arrested near the border with Iraq. He is currently held in incommunicado detention. After he was arrested he was taken to a Ministry of Intelligence detention facility and subsequently taken for interrogation to Section 2 of the Prosecutor’s Office in Ahvaz City, in the Province of Khuzestan. Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher, scholar and the author of several books on philosophy and modernity in Iran. On 2 May 2006, Government Response

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