Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
IRN 13/2014
14/07/2014 Iran (Islamic
JUA
Republic of)
Arbitrary
detention;
Freedom of
expression;
Freedom of
religion; Health;
Independence of
judges and
lawyers; Iran;
Minority issues;
Summary
executions;
Torture;
Alleged arbitrary detention and infringement of due process and fair trial guarantees
of 33 Kurdish men; and allegations of inhumane treatment and denial of urgent
medical treatment in detention. According to the information received, between 2009
and 2010, 33 Kurdish men, including one minor, were arrested by Iranian officials in
Kurdistan. They were convicted of several national security offenses. Four of them,
Messrs. Hamed Ahmadi, Jameshed Dehghani, Jahangir Dehghani and Komal Molaye,
were reportedly sentenced to death following a summary trial without the presence of
a lawyer and subjected to both physical and psychological torture while in detention.
The Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in September 2013 as well as those
of four others of the group of 33 Kurdish men - Seyed Jamal Mousavi, Abdorahman
Sangani, Sedigh Mohammadi and Seyed Hadi Hosseini. The other 25 men remain on
death row pending review by the Supreme Court. Messrs. Hamed Ahmadi, Jameshed
Dehghani, Jahangir Dehghani and Komal Molaye were the subject of a previous
communication sent on 17 June 2014, A/HRC/28/85, case no. IRN 10/2014.
ISR 6/2014
14/07/2014 Israel
JUA
Arbitrary
detention;
Independence of
judges and
lawyers; Torture;
Allegations of arbitrary arrest and detention of three Palestinian activists. According
to the information received, on 6 March 2014, Ms. Shireen Issawi, a Palestinian
lawyer, was arrested at her house by Israeli authorities. She has since been held in
solitary confinement in Al Maskubieh Complex of Jerusalem and in Hasharon prison,
and is subjected to harassment, ill-treatment and long and severe questioning by the
authorities. On 13 March 2014, Mr. Medhat Tarek Issawi, her brother, was also
arrested by the Israeli authorities. He is currently detained in Ashkelon prison and
does not have access to a lawyer. On 23 June 2014, Mr. Samer Issawi, their brother
and a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was arrested at
his home by the Israeli authorities and is currently detained in Gilboa prison. His
arrest reportedly occurred in the context of massive detention operations by the Israeli
authorities, following the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers on 12 June 2014.
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