A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 126 Para Country Date Type Mandate 92. 03/04/07 JUA SUMX; TOR 93. 19/04/07 JUA WGAD; TOR; Allegations transmitted where he has been ill-treated. Mr. Ramin Sadeghi was arrested in the city of Ardabil on 19 February 2007 together with around 20 other persons. He was first held in a detention facility of the Ministry of Intelligence and then transferred to Section 1 of Ardabil Prison on 3 March 2007. Authorities have denied him any visits. He has gone on hunger strike and is in poor health, and in urgent need of medical care. Javad Naroui, Ma'soud Nosrat Zahi, Houshang Shahnavazi, Yahya Sohrab Zahi, Ali Reza Brahoui, Abdalbek Kahra Zahi (also known as Abdalmalek), and S. Q. Z., aged 17, all members of the Baluchi minority and are at risk of imminent execution. They have been tried, convicted and sentenced to death in connection with a series of crimes which took place in the town of Tasuki, in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces in March 2006. Confessions of five of the men (Ali Reza Brahoui, Yahya Sohrab Zahi, S. Q. Z., Houshang Shahnavazi and Ma'soud Nosrat Zahi) were broadcast by Iranian state television. Reports received also indicate that these five men might have been tortured, including by having bones in their hands and feet broken, by being “branded” with a red-hot iron and by an electric drill applied to their limbs. Hadi Musevi, an Iranian citizen and an active member of Gamoh (Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement). On 7 April 2007, between midnight and 1 a.m., Azerbaijani police went to his home in Baku and arrested him. He was detained in a detention centre run by the immigration Government response

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