A/HRC/28/70 inside the country which seeks to undermine the security of the country,” “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the system,” and “earning illegitimate assets.” On appeal the sentence was reduced to13 years imprisonment. Mr. Soltani is currently serving his sentence. He has reportedly contracted numerous illnesses and suffers from heart complications. Despite his ongoing medical issues, to date, he has been deprived of furlough or access to specialized health care outside prison. 30. In September 2014, Ayatollah Kazemeyni-Boroujerdi was reportedly threatened with execution if he continued to author letters while detained. Mr. Boroujerdi’s physical health is reportedly deteriorating and he suffers from diabetes, asthma, Parkinson’s disease, kidney and heart problems, and collapses frequently. In February 2014, prison medical staff reportedly said he required hospitalization outside of the prison. During his eight years in prison, Ayatollah Boroujerdi has been hospitalized on three occasions. Mr. Boroujerdi, a dissident Shi’a cleric and was arrested in 2006 due to his advocacy of the separation of religion and state. In 2007 he was given the death sentence by a Special Clerical Court. The death sentence was later reduced to an 11 year prison sentence.25 31. Student activist Mr. Arash Sadeghi was reportedly arrested at his office on 6 September 2014 and has since been held in Ward 2A of Evin Prison. Mr. Sadeghi was previously released from prison in 2013 after serving time for “propaganda against the system” and “assembly and collusion against the state.” 32. In December 2014, Mr. Amir Hekmati , in an open letter, appealed to the head of the Judiciary and the Intelligence Minister regarding “lack of progress” on his case and threatened to embark on hunger strike in protest.26 On 23 December 2014, Mr. Hekmati temporarily suspended the hunger strike that he began on 18 December after Evin Prison officials agreed to take measures with the “appropriate Iranian government authorities” to revisit the case.27 Mr. Amir Hekmati, who was reportedly arrested in August 2011 when visiting relatives in Iran from the United States, was initially sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court on charges of “cooperation with an enemy State,” “membership in the CIA,” moharebeh (sometimes translated as “enmity with God” and sometimes as “drawing a weapon to the populace with intent to instill fear”), and mofsed fel-arz (“corruption on earth”) in January 2012. The sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court in March 2012 and the case was ordered to retrial.28 Mr. Hekmati has maintained the charges to be based “solely on confessions obtained by force, threats, miserable prison conditions, and prolonged periods of solitary confinement.”29 In April 2014, Mr. Hekmati was reportedly sentenced to 10 years in prison, a sentence which is currently being appealed.30 In 2013, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) deemed Mr. Hekmati’s detention arbitrary and called for his immediate release. 33. In October 2014, Branch 36 of the Iranian Supreme Court accepted a request for the retrial of academic and scientist Mr. Omid Kokabee. Mr. Kokabee was a post-doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States at the time of his arrest in January 2011. He initially was charged and sentenced for “cooperating with enemy state[s].” The Supreme Court overturned this conviction on the basis that the Islamic Republic of Iran is not officially at war with any other country. The Special Rapporteur 25 26 27 28 29 30 30 http://iranhr.net/2014/10/fear-of-execution-dissident-cleric-ayatollah-kazemeyni-boroujerditransferred-to-an-unknown-location/. http://en.iranwire.com/features/6204/. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/23/us/ap-us-iran-american-detained.html. http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/08/amir-hekmati-3/. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/american-accused-spying-iranian-amir-hekmat. http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/08/amir-hekmati-3/.