A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 127 Para 94. Country Date 01/06/07 Type JUA Mandate HRD; SUMX; TOR Allegations transmitted section of the Ministry of Interior and did not have access to a lawyer until 10 April 2007. Hadi Musevi was accused of illegally residing in the country and was told that he will be deported to Iran immediately. On 11 April 2007, he was taken to Baku airport and placed on a plane bound for Iran. Since then, his whereabouts are unknown. In Iran, he has not returned home or otherwise contacted his family. In 2004, he was arrested in connection with the so-called “Babak castle gathering” and imprisoned for two months. Thereafter, he left Iran for Azerbaijan, where he sought asylum through the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. His application was rejected, but an appeal was still pending. While in Baku, Hadi Musevi participated in numerous demonstrations in front of the Iranian embassy. Hossein Forouhideh (also known as Khatibi), an advocate of linguistic and social rights for Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity from the Khoy region. He was sentenced to death by bench 1 of the Revolutionary Court in the city of Orumiyeh. While neither the date of his secret trial nor the precise charges on which he was convicted are known, it would appear that they are connected to accusations of spying for the Turkish Government. After an initial period of detention in an Etelaat (Ministry of Intelligence) detention facility in Khoy, Hossein Forouhideh spent more than nine months incommunicado in an Etelaat detention facility in the city of Oromiyeh, where he was tortured leaving him with extensive bruising to his torso and a number of broken ribs. He was Government response

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