A/HRC/4/21/Add.2 page 10 Special Rapporteur noted that some media often play a negative role in stigmatizing certain communities by portraying them in a denigrating manner. This observation raised even more concern because an important part of the media is controlled by the Government. 42. The reported acts of religious intolerance or other forms of persecution were committed by non-State actors or by law enforcement officials. In many cases, these acts took the form of raids conducted by police officers, often accompanied by representatives of SCWRA and TV crews, on private homes where religious gatherings were taking place. Pictures of these raids are then shown by TV for several days. 43. In June 2005, a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses was the object of a raid conducted by police officers accompanied by reporters from a TV channel. The police remained at the premises for three hours and prevented the participants from leaving while TV reporters recorded the scene on camera. A number of the community’s belongings were broken and religious literature was confiscated. Some members of the community were brought to the police station where they were interrogated about their activities. It is alleged that some of them were beaten or threatened with conversion to Islam. The members arrested were released after a few hours and, thanks to intensive efforts of their community, the literature confiscated was returned after a few months. Their statements were reportedly taken out of context and broadcast on television, painting them as unpatriotic people, whose religion limited their ability to defend their country. Witnesses to the incident were shocked at the high-handedness of the representative of SCWRA, who according to them, “behaved worse than the police”. 44. The Jehovah’s Witness community has been the victim of a few similar incidents. It was alleged that in some cases their members were fined, including by courts, for having gathered and prayed in private houses. 45. The followers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church reported that a regional TV channel launched a campaign against them for over two weeks. Further to this campaign, certain Muslim leaders gave public statements, asking the people to “cleanse” Gandja of the followers of the Seventh Day Adventists. An imam allegedly called for “jihad” against the followers of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. His call led to some violence, as crowds threw stones, damaging their place of worship. 46. Followers of the Baptist Church were victims of another campaign, which ran for two weeks at a television channel, accusing them of “enemies of Islam”. A similar TV campaign was broadcast against the Evangelical Church. 47. In Nakichevan, the situation of religious communities is slightly different from the one on the mainland. The Special Rapporteur received a number of reports disclosing acts of persecutions of small religious communities by the authorities. She received reports of harassment, intimidation and expulsion of individuals and groups by the authorities in Nakichevan.