A/HRC/25/61 completed service of his sentence. He was released in September 2013 and returned to Canada, where he is a citizen and where he had lived prior to his arrest. Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall’s conviction and sentence were apparently upheld three times by the Iranian Supreme Court before he was eventually granted a re-trial. Yahsar Khamenei Blogger Mr. Yashar Khameini worked for a satirical Facebook page which used religion to satirize the Iranian authorities’ reported sensitivity to criticism of religion. In May 2012, his family contacted him and told him that authorities threatened to take his father to prison if he did not cease his participation in the page. He did stop his involvement but his family told him that authorities took his father into custody anyway. Mr. Khamenei’s father was eventually “exonerated” of his son’s “crime” of insulting Islam, but in October 2013, he found out that his father has been sentenced to jail for one year for possession of a bottle of alcohol, a satellite television, and pepper spray, for which he had a permit. (They had seized all of these items the first time they arrested him). In November 2013, his father was summoned and he showed up and introduced himself, but the prison authorities told him he was free to go. His father therefore remains in a state of quasi-semi legal limbo. Though he is exonerated from the original charge, it is clear that authorities continue to maintain a case against him. Mohamed Ali Khalili Human rights lawyer Mr Ali Khalili was a lawyer in Iran with the Bar. He taught at University, and is also an expert on international law. In one case he took on, there were several people who were arrested trying to defend Azerbaijani rights. They were arrested without due process and put in the hands of the Ministry of Information. Mr. Khalili took this case on and clashed with the judge on the case. His role was “only to ask that the rights of these individuals -- in accordance with Iranian law -- be respected.” He had to bring a procedural suit against the Prosecutor-General and judicial officials in Eastern Azerbaijan when he felt he was unable to do this due to his relationship with the judge on the case. One morning in 2004, four people from the Ministry of Intelligence stormed his office and searched everything. They also seized laptops and other materials. They drove him to his house, where his wife (who had just given birth) was there with her mother. They told him to knock on the door, which he did, and he told his wife that he was there with an officer. They said they wanted to search his apartment for “the drugs and alcohol that he uses.” He denied using anything. He demanded a warrant and mentioned that he was a lawyer and knew his rights, but they ignored him. They searched the house, took his computer and satellite dish, and took him to the office of the Ministry of Information. No official even asked for his name for 16 days while he was in detention. 75