A/HRC/10/8/Add.1 page 25 confiscated from them when they were arrested in May 2006. When they did not return within a reasonable time, family members who had accompanied them were given conflicting information by Information Ministry officials, including that the three Bahá’ís had not entered the building, whereas their relatives had seen them do so. 88. Ms. Haleh Roohi, Ms. Raha Sabet and Mr. Sassan Taqva are reportedly being held at the detention centre of the Ministry of Information in Shiraz. The reason for their detainment at this facility is not known. Since the Information Ministry does not have the right under Iranian law to imprison citizens but only to detain individuals for the purpose of interrogation there are serious concerns about their safety. Observations 89. The Special Rapporteur regrets that she has not received a reply from the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning the above mentioned allegations. She would like to refer to her framework for communications, more specifically to the international human rights norms and to the mandate practice concerning the right to manifest one’s religion or belief and the teaching and dissemination of materials, including missionary activity (see above, para. 1, category I.3.f). Communication sent on 12 February 2008 90. As a follow-up to her communication sent on 24 April 2007 (A/HRC/7/10/Add.1, paras. 121-122) and the Government’s reply of 20 June 2007 (A/HRC/7/10/Add.1, para. 123), the Special Rapporteur indicated that the dates of the passing away of Ms. Bihnam Saltanat Akhdari, 16 February 2007, and of Ms. Shah Baygum Diqhani, 7 March 2007, were already indicated in the original communication. In addition, she indicated that Ms. Akhdari was an 85-year-old resident of Abbas Abad, a dependency of Abadeh in Shiraz and that Ms. Diqhani lived in Mohammadiyyeh in the province of Isfahan. 91. With regard to the alleged denial of access to education for Bahá’ís, the Special Rapporteur provided a list of 104 Bahá’í students who allegedly were expelled from Iranian universities in 2007 as well as their fields of study. According to further information she had received, Mr. Asghar Zarei, Director General of the Central Security Office in 2006 issued a confidential communication M/2/3/9378 to 81 universities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. These universities were instructed to expel any student who is discovered to be a Bahá’í, whether at the time of enrolment or in the course of his or her studies. The communication indicated that the Ministry’s instructions were being promulgated under the provision of decree number 1327/M/S, referring to the memorandum on “the Bahá’í question” from the Iranian Supreme Revolutionary Council, approved by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. One of its provisions was reported as follows: “when a student is known to be a Bahá’í, he shall be expelled from university, either during the admission process or in the course of the academic year” (see the report of the former UN Special Representative on Iran, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, E/CN.4/1993/41, para. 310).