A/HRC/4/21/Add.2 page 12 55. SCWRA in Gandja processed the registration of a number of religions and denied having refused registration to anyone. However, they admitted that they had not responded to the registration application of the Jesus Christ Church and implied that they had no intention of responding. 56. In some cases, the absence of registration has been interpreted as justified since the community concerned was considered to be a “dangerous” group and sometimes accused of provoking acts of violence or other forms of religious intolerance against the population. For example, the followers of the Abrahimi community were denied registration allegedly on the grounds that its teachings were insulting to the mainstream Islamic faith. D. Censorship 57. The control of religious groups or other communities of belief, in particular those which have a foreign link, is often carried out through a meticulous scrutiny of their literature. In most cases such literature comes from abroad and, according to the authorities, constitutes a means to disseminate religious propaganda that is either critical or insulting of other religions, goes against the interests of the State, or even incites to acts of terrorism. While the authorities are reluctant to use the word “censorship”, they consider such control as necessary and justified. The Special Rapporteur was told in this respect that religious propaganda is not part of the right to manifest one’s religion as protected by relevant international instruments. 58. Regarding the import of religious literature, almost every religious group complained of unnecessary delay and harassment by custom officials. Several incidents of corruption and arbitrariness by customs officials were reported to the Special Rapporteur. 59. Regarding the content of religious literature, SCWRA gave some indication of the amount of religious material they receive for approval. In 2005, they reviewed 354 books and other publications and prohibited the import of 89 of them. One consignment of religious material related to a publication imported by a Protestant group, while others were imported by various Islamic groups. 60. The Jesus Christ Church also complained of being denied delivery of a consignment of Bibles ordered by them. SCWRA reportedly gave them five copies out of the whole consignment and confiscated the rest, though they were all identical copies. 61. SCWRA gave some examples of preaching in the books that they confiscated. A book issued by a Saudi ministry, in cooperation with a charitable organization, had the following message: “It means that the one, who violates it secretly or openly, should know that he/she becomes disbeliever and should expect the possibility of killing or imprisonment.” Another book issued by the same source included the teaching of prayer by Dr. Abdulla bin Ahmed Al-Zeid warning that anyone who voluntarily worshipped anyone but Allah entered proselytism, which was a grave sin. Those sinners, it said, “can be killed and his/her property can be confiscated”. The majority of such books, SCWRA alleged, were received from Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey.