E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.1 Page 44 174. On 28 November 2004, she was sentenced to death by a court in Arak, while she was 18, on charges of "acts contrary to chastity", including controlling a brothel, having intercourse with blood relatives and giving birth to a child out of wedlock. It was reported that IQ tests had revealed that she had the mental age equivalent to that of an eight year-old. However, she had apparently never been examined by the courtappointed doctors, and was sentenced to death solely on the basis of her explicit confessions, without consideration of her background or mental health. She was forced into prostitution by her mother at the age of eight and bore several children as a result. She was also repeatedly raped, sold into marriage, and subsequently forced into prostitution by her respective spouses. Response from the Government dated 4 February 2005 175. The Government confirmed that Ms. Leila Mafi had been sentenced to death. The verdict was challenged and therefore sent to the Supreme Court for further consideration. On this basis, the sentence was not considered as final. In addition to the reconsideration of the Supreme Court, there were provisions of extraordinary appeals offered to the accused, should the sentence be reconfirmed. Urgent appeal sent on 15 December 2004 with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders , the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the Special Rapporteur on torture 176. The Special Rapporteurs brought to the attention of the Government the situation of Mr. Bahram Mashhadi, aged 31, and a member of the Bahá'í community, who was arrested on 1 December 2004 by the Iranian intelligence authorities when he arrived to present an appeal on the situation of Bahá'ís in Iran to a group called the Eastern Tehran Assembly of Jurists (Majma'-e-Qada'i-e-Sharq-eTehran). He was taken to the local police station, where he was detained overnight. 177. On 2 December, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Prosecutor's Office of the Revolution (Dadsitani-e-Markaz-e-Enghelab), where he was interrogated. Accompanied by a guard, he was subsequently brought back to his home to collect some personal effects and then taken to Evin Prison, Tehran. Since then, his relatives had gone there on several occasions in order to visit him. Each time, the prison authorities denied any knowledge of him being held there. It had been impossible to obtain any further information on Mr. Mashhadi’s whereabouts. 178. It was believed his detention was related to a written appeal submitted to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 15 November 2004 on the situation of Bahá'ís in Iran, by a group of Iranian Bahá'ís on behalf of the entire community. Subsequently, some of the Bahá’ís who distributed the message were arrested. Most of these individuals were detained for a short period of time and then released. Urgent appeal sent on 14 March 2005 with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention