A/HRC/7/3/Add.1
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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
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