A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 128 Para 95. Country Date 07/06/07 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; HRD; TOR Allegations transmitted subsequently transferred to a third Etelaat facility, Dokkuz Pille Prison in Orumiyeh, where he is currently detained. In March 2007, the authorities informed Hossein Forouhideh’s mother that he had been executed, and that she should collect his body from the detention facility. When she went there from Khoy, where she lives, the guards told her that her son had not yet been executed. She recently visited the detention facility again, but was not allowed to visit her son. Hossein Forouhideh’s wife, who lives in eastern Turkey, has not been able to obtain information about her husband since at least September 2006. Sa’id Metinpour and Jalil Ghanilou, residing in Zenjan, both advocates of Azerbaijani linguistic and cultural rights in Iran. Mr. Metinpour and his wife were arrested at home in Zenjan on 25 May 2007 at around midnight by plain-clothed officials from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. The officers forced them into a vehicle and blindfolded them. Later, they were separated and Mr. Metinpour was removed in one car, while his wife was returned to their home in another. At around 5 a.m. on 26 May 2007, Ministry of Intelligence officials arrived to search the couple’s residence. They removed notebooks, tapes and albums containing family photos before searching the home of Mr. Metinpour’s father, which is located on a higher floor. Mr. Metinpour’s current whereabouts are unknown. His wife has sought information about his fate from the state prosecution authorities (Dadsara) and the judiciary (Dadgostari), but was told by both that Government response

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