A/HRC/54/61 Papua provinces (Papua region), that included engaging with OHCHR (IDN 7/2019109). On 10 March 2023, special procedures mandate holders addressed three incidents against Mr. Mambor: a bomb attack outside his residence in January 2023, the earlier vandalization of his car in May 2022, and the hacking and deletion of his twitter account in 2022. Reportedly these incidents took place after Mr. Mambor had shared a video depicting violent acts by the Indonesian security forces. Mandate holders expressed concern for his safety and retaliation against his human rights work. (IDN 1/2023).110 84. On 27 July 2023 the Government responded to the note verbale sent in connection to the present report and requested that the response it had provided to special procedures mandate holders on the case of Mr. Mambor be included in the present report.111 It explained the challenges encountered in the investigative process into the incidents alleged, shared the initial conclusions pointing to one incident constituting a criminal act, and further clarified that the target and the motive of the offence remained unidentified and therefore no assumptions should be made, or conclusions reached until the ongoing investigations conclude. The Government reiterated its cooperative engagement and its commitment to protect the rights of human rights defenders. 15. Iran (Islamic Republic of) 85. The case of Mr. Manouchehr Bakhtiyari, the father of Pouya Bakhtiari, a protestor who was shot in the head by security forces and killed during the nationwide November 2019 protests, was included in the 2021 and 2022 report of the Secretary General 112 on allegations of repeated arrests, interrogations and threats for publicly calling for justice for his son’s death, including in an open letter addressed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and others. He was arrested in January 2020 with other members of his family and convicted on national security charges and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and one-year outside the city of Tehran.113 Mr. Bakhtiyari remains in detention since 29 April 2021. 86. According to information received by OHCHR, on 30 July 2022, the ninth chamber of the Supreme Court revoked Mr. Bakhtiyari’s conviction and sentence on national security charges by the first chamber of Karaj’s Revolutionary Court for national security related offences. The retrial of this case has yet to take place. 87. During the reporting period, the Qazvin’s Prosecution Office filed charges of “insulting the Supreme Leader” against Mr. Bakhtiyari. On 30 April 2023, the first chamber of the Qazvin Revolutionary Court sent the case back to the Prosecution Office for further evidence. According to information received by OHCHR, Mr. Bakhtiyari has allegedly been mistreated and denied access to adequate health care, despite medical assessments from two coroner offices prescribing two different surgeries. 88. On 26 July 2023 the Government responded to the note verbale sent in connection to the present report noting that Mr. Manouchehr Bakhtiyari had not been prosecuted for “writing a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”, but rather for committing criminal offences under the Penal Code, in particular for insulting the Supreme Leader (article 514) and for inciting and encouraging individuals to spark riots (article 499). It further stated that Mr. Bakhtiyari had no interest in treatment at public hospitals and insisted on treatment in private ones, and that allegations that he might be deprived of adequate treatment are baseless and untrue. 109 110 111 112 113 GE.23-15378 See government reply at: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=34873. See government reply at: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadFile?gId=37519. Ibid. A/HRC/48/28, para. 76 and Annex I, para. 52, A/HRC/51/47, Annex II, paras. 94–95. A/HRC/49/75, para. 64. 61