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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
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