E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 41 According to recent information received by the Special Rapporteur, Baha’i cemeteries, holy places, historic sites and administrative centres continue to be confiscated or in some cases destroyed. Owing to their limited access to the cemeteries designated by the authorities, Baha’is are allegedly finding it very difficult to bury their dead in certain places. 2. Members of Christian Churches According to information received, the Reverend Edmond, pastor of Injili Presbyterian Church in Tabriz (referred to in the Special Rapporteur’s report (E/CN.4/1992/52)), is suffering various ailments as a result of his imprisonment between December 1990 and August 1991 and has been refused an exit visa from Iran. Mr. Mohammad Sepehr, a Muslim convert to Christianity, is said to have been briefly imprisoned early in 1993. Since then, he has repeatedly been called back to prison for interrogation and is currently under threat of a death sentence. He has even been obliged to go to the Mash-had mosque and reconvert to Islam, under threat of execution. The pastor Mehdi Dibaj, mentioned by the Special Rapporteur in the report referred to above, a former Muslim and a convert to Christianity, is reported to be still imprisoned without trial, although he has been transferred to Sari prison (Mazandaran province), where his conditions of detention have allegedly improved. It is nevertheless reported that his wife has been threatened with being stoned to death should she refuse to recant her Christian faith. She has reportedly been forced to divorce her husband in order to marry a Muslim fundamentalist. Their four children are said to have remained with their Church, which has taken charge of them." 16. In an urgent appeal dated 14 January 1994, the Special Rapporteur addressed the following information to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran: "I have the honour to address this letter to you in accordance with the mandate entrusted to me by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1993/25. In my capacity as Special Rapporteur, I should like to draw your attention to recent information that I have received concerning Mr. Mehdi Dibaj, aged 45, a Muslim convert to Christianity, who subsequently became a pastor. It is reported that, after already spending more than seven years in prison, he was sentenced to death on 3 December 1993 for apostasy by an Islamic revolutionary court in the city of Sari. Fears are said to have been expressed about his execution which is alleged to be imminent. I wish to recall the provisions of article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which stipulates in paragraph 1 that ’everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a