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
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