A/HRC/37/68/Add.1 has completed his term of imprisonment and is presently in Evin Prison in good health, on a provisional writ of capias. Meanwhile, he has had regular meetings with his first-degree relatives. It is noted that his numerous unlawful acts do not relate to a healthy and lawful human rights activist, and the legal proceedings in his case have been carried out with due diligence in all stages of the proceedings. He has three defense attorneys, and thus it can be seen that the allegations contained in this paragraph are incorrect and need to be corrected. Reply to paragraphs 48 and 49 Despite the information provided in the response of Iran to the Special Rapporteur’s report of the last year, repetitive, false and unsubstantiated allegations have been raised in this draft report. Expressing concern about the situation of civil society activists in Iran is discussed in this section. In Iran, there are a large number of activists in the field of social, civil and human rights, although the abuse of the title of civil rights activist or human rights defender or any other similar title cannot undermine their judicial responsibility. Unfortunately, in the Draft, the title of the women rights activist, workers and human rights defenders has been used with carelessly, to the point where, in some cases, terrorists can also be subject to these titles. In addition, the use of the title of civil rights activist or human rights defenders to insult individuals who, according to their anti-social behaviors, ignore the norms of the society and commit offenses against the law, is an insult to the true defenders of human rights. Reply to paragraph 50 According to some judicial authorities, numerous crimes attributable to the individuals referred to in this paragraph (Mr.s Mousavi and Karroubi) have been seriously documented, in the postelection turbulences of 2009, and the flexibility shown by the Government toward them has been merely for protection of their lives and also because of their earlier high ranking position in the system. Reply to paragraph 51 The Islamic Republic of Iran has already sufficiently provided detailed information to the working group on the illegal activities of the Namazis. In previous responses, it is also plainly mentioned that while thousands of Iranians who are residing abroad, travel freely and enthusiastically to their country each year, and their relatives also travel abroad repeatedly, the allegation for the arbitrary arrest of people with two nationalities is in vain. Moreover, as it is observed, the legal prosecution and judicial review of some individuals with a foreign nationality and the allegations raised in the draft, demonstrates incorrectness of the allegations. Reply to paragraph 52 According to the Tehran Provincial Court, Mr. Ahmad Reza Jalali was arrested in 2016 on charges of cooperating with the Mossad espionage services and confessed at the time of the investigation in the prosecutor's office and in the court, as well. He has passed on the names of 30 nuclear scientists to the Israeli intelligence service, and as a result of which, two of our country's scientists (martyr Shahriari and martyr Ali-Mohammadi) were assasinated by agents of Mossad. Mr. Jalali had received some € 250,000 in cash from the Mossad spyware service. The trial was held at the presence of a judge and a tutor at two meetings, with the presence of a lawyer and a prosecutor's representative, and his lawyer met with him twice before the trial. The hearing court condemned Mr. Jalali to death on charges of corruption through co-operation with the Mossad spy service, and the judgment issued by the Supreme Court would be appealed and the decision was notified to the lawyer. In the meantime, during his stay in Evin prison, he has been enjoying all the prison facilities, including telephone calls, access to publications and visits of the family. Note: The authors of this correspondence, which are widely distributed daily in the form of postcards, letters and e-mails, also send them in an organized way to various departments of the Islamic Republic of Iran abroad, and even to the judiciary, do not have a direct knowledge of the case and by referring to non-governmental organization's websites and relying on the statements quoted by some individuals, write and submit allegations such "lack of access to a lawyer" “ unfair proceedings” and so on. These allegations are far from the existing realities and fact. Abundance of such statements and allegations by certain organizations and not Nongovernmental organizations and anonymous people, as well as their biased approach, well 21

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