A/HRC/16/53/Add.1 2. (a) Urgent appeal sent on 13 August 2010 jointly with the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; and the Independent Expert on Minority Issues Allegations transmitted to the Government 185. The Special Procedures mandate holders brought to the attention of the Government information regarding recent cases involving members of the Bahá’í community in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 186. According to the information received, on 7 August 2010, Ms. Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr. Afif Naeimi, Mr. Saeid Rezaie, Mr. Behrouz Tavakkoli, Mr. Vahid Tizfahm and Ms. Mahvash Sabet were reportedly sentenced by a Revolutionary Court in Teheran to 20 years of imprisonment each. The five men and two women, who were formerly the members of the Bahá’í leadership group at national level and have been detained in Evin prison since 2008, were allegedly convicted of charges including “insulting religious sanctities”, “espionage for Israel” and “propaganda against the system”. On 9 August 2010, they were reportedly transferred to a prison in Gohardasht, Karaj. 187. On 18 July 2010, Mr. Ghavamoddin Sabetian was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents who came to his home in Sari (Mazandaran Province). Ministry officers had searched the home on 9 June 2010 and confiscated personal belongings, including all material related in any way to his religious beliefs. 188. On 17 July 2010, Intelligence Ministry officials arrested Mr. Hedayatollah Rezaie in Abadan (Khouzestan province) following a search of his home. 189. On 14 July 2010, Mr. Houman Hourbod, aged 18 years, was summoned to the local Intelligence Ministry office in Sari (Mazandaran Province) and arrested upon arrival. On 30 June 2010, Intelligence Ministry officers had come to search his family’s home, summoning his father, Mr. Ehsanollah Hourbod, for interrogation the next day and then releasing him. 190. On 22 June 2010, officers from the Intelligence Ministry arrested Ms. Noura Nabilzadeh in an orphanage in Mashhad, while she was playing music for the children there. The officers took her to her home, searched the house and confiscated all materials related to her religion along with other personal belongings, including the computers and cell phones of all family members. On 5 July 2010, Ms. Nabilzadeh was permitted to have a telephone conversation with her family. She is being detained at the local detention centre of the Intelligence Ministry. Her father, Mr. Davar Nabilzadeh, recently lost his appeal against a sentence of five years’ imprisonment and he was taken back into custody to begin serving his prison term on 13 July 2010. 191. On 20 June 2010, Intelligence Ministry officials searched Ms. Sara Mahboubi’s home in Sari (Mazandaran Province) and confiscated computers and books, CDs and photos linked to the Bahá’í faith. She was not home at the time and the officials told her parents that she had to go to the local office of the Ministry upon her return. On 24 June 2010, Ms. Mahboubi went to the Ministry and was immediately arrested. 192. On 7 June 2010, Mr. Moshtagh Samandari was summoned to the local Intelligence Ministry office in Babol and was arrested upon arrival. Subsequently, he was sentenced to three years of prison on charges of disrespecting Islam by advertising Baha’ism. His brother, Mr. Moshfegh Samandari (also of Babol) is currently in prison serving out a sixmonth sentence. 39