Date Type Case No Country Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply 11/01/11 IRN 1/2011 JUA Iran (Islamic Republic of) Arbitrary detention; Disappearances; Independence of judges and lawyers; Summary executions; Torture Alleged pattern of unlawful executions, arrests and detentions. According to the 04/02/11, information received, on 28 December 2010 Mr. Ali Saremi, aged 63, was executed by 21/06/11 hanging for moharebeh (enmity against God) in relation to his alleged membership of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). Mr. Jaafar Kazemi, Mr. Javad Lari and Mr. Mohammad Ali Haj-Aghaei were allegedly sentenced to death for moharebeh in relation to their alleged membership of PMOI. In December 2009, protests were held to commemorate the deaths which allegedly occurred following the outcome of the June 2009 presidential election. Two days following the protests, Ms. Farah Vazehan, aged 48, was reportedly arrested and sentenced to death for moharebeh. Mr. Abdolreza Ghanbari, aged 42, and father and son Mr. Ahmad Daneshpour Moqhaddam and Mohsen Daneshpour Moqhaddam, were allegedly arrested and sentenced to death. On 27 December 2009, Ms. Zahra Bahrami, was arrested. She has been sentenced to death. On 17 December 2010, Ms. Hakimeh Shokri, Ms. Neda Mostaghimi and Mr. Mehdi Ramezani were reportedly arrested and detained. On 29 December 2010, the authorities reportedly prevented assemblies marking the deaths that occurred a year earlier. In this context, family members of detainees were allegedly detained, including Mr. Mohammad Nourizad, Ms. Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour and Mr. Mostafa Tajzadeh, whose case was addressed in an earlier communication (see A/HRC/13/39/Add.1, para 120). On 28 December 2010, Mr. Ali Akbar Siadat was reportedly executed by hanging on charges of undertaking espionage for Israel and corruption. On 31 July 2008, Mr. Hossein Khezri, aged 28, was reportedly arrested in Kermanshah. On 11 July 2009, he was allegedly convicted for moharebeh and endangering state security, and sentenced to death. His case was addressed in earlier communications (see A/HRC/16/52/Add.1, para 78). On 27 December 2010, Mr. Reza Sharifi Bukani, reportedly sentenced to death, was allegedly transferred from Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj to an undisclosed location. Since then, there had been no news on his condition and whereabouts. 12/01/11 EGY 2/2011 JUA Egypt Arbitrary detention; Torture Alleged arbitrary detention and torture. According to the information received, Mr. Adel Mahmoud Diab, born in 1968, from Mayet Assem village, Benha, Al Dukalhieh, was arrested at his home on 12 December 2009. The agents of the State Security Investigation Services (SSI) in plain clothes and uniformed agents of the Central Security forces did not present any judicial warrant nor did they explain to Mr. Diab the reason for his arrest. Mr. Diab was reportedly taken to the SSI premises in Nasr City where he was held until 13 January 2010, before he was transferred to Abu Za’bal Prison. It is reported that while in detention, Mr. Diab was subjected to beatings and other acts of torture and ill-treatment by the SSI agents. 31 A/HRC/18/51 Mandate(s)

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