A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 123 Para 105. Country Date 30/08/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; HRD; TOR; Allegations transmitted Intelligence police made repeated telephone calls to the family's house, demanding that they reveal the whereabouts of Mehdi Babaei Ajabshir. On 29 June 2006, Ali Babaei Ajabshir was released, on condition that he would convince his brother Mehdi to report to the Tabriz Ministry of Information. On 11 July 2006, witnesses told Mehdi Babaei Ajabshir’s family that he had been arrested in the street by Ministry of Information officials. His family did not know his whereabouts until 21 July 2006, when he telephoned them and told them that he was at a detention facility run by the Ministry of Information in Tabriz. He has had no contact with his family since and no access to his lawyer. It is not known whether he remains detained at the Ministry of Information detention facility, or whether he has been transferred to Tabriz prison. Ali Khodabakhshi, also known as Elyaz Yekanli, a prominent activist for the cultural, social and political rights of the Azeri Turkish community in Iran. On or around 8 June 2006, he was arrested at his home in the Village of Kahriz Yekan, in northwestern Iran. He was detained for 30 days in solitary confinement, at a detention facility run by the Ministry of Information (Etelaat) in the city of Tabriz. During this time, he did not have access to his family or lawyer, and his family did not know where he was detained. He was beaten and given electric shocks to force him to make a confession. He was subsequently transferred to Qirkhlar Prison in Marand, where he is still being held. In Qirkhlar Prison, he is detained in a cell with other Government Response

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