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
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents