E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.1 Page 88 underwent a routine medical check on his arrival. They indicated that he had been suffering from tuberculosis before he was admitted to the prison. 418. The Government informed that under Article 12 of the Penal Correction Code, convicts are guaranteed freedom of conscience. It informed that Iskander Tolipov is entitled to profess any religion or not to profess and religion at all. The law allows inmates to practice religious rites and make use of articles of worship and religious literature. The Government informed that these requirements of the law are strictly observed by the administration of the institution. Communication sent on 7 June 2005 419. The Special Rapporteur was informed that Uzbek authorities had banned the relics of two saints recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church from entering the country. The two saints, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna and a lay-sister Varvara, were reportedly both nuns martyred in 1918, by being thrown alive down a mine shaft. Reports indicated that the relics had already been brought to eight other former Soviet republics over the past six months. 420. The Special Rapporteur was further informed that the Protestant Peace Church, in the town of Chirchik, outside the capital Tashkent, and the capital's Jehovah's Witness congregation were the latest religious communities to be refused registration by the Government. Both communities would now be at risk of prosecution and therefore the possibility of being imposed large fines and jail terms. The reasons given to the Peace Church for the decision on 7 January 2005 reportedly included the claim that their application contained "many grammatical and spelling mistakes." In fact, it was reported that none of the reasons given were specified by Uzbekistan's religion law. Reports indicate that the Tashkent community of the Jehovah's Witnesses had long been denied registration, despite renewed attempts to register since March 2004. Refusal to register a religious community has serious implications. Indeed, the country's law on religions makes the activities of an unregistered religious community subject to prosecution, both as administrative and criminal offences. Reports indicate that, in 2004, only one new non-Muslim religious community was registered by the State. 421. On 11 February 2005, Hal ima Boltobayeva, a Muslim from Margelan whose husband was in jail, had reportedly been freed after two months in jail and given a one year suspended sentence. Concerns had been expressed that she was framed by prison staff, after she refused to accept their claims that she dressed like a "shahidka", a term reportedly widely used for a female Muslim terrorist. She reportedly wears the hijab headscarf and a long garment that covers her entire body. In order to justify their actions, the prison staff claimed to have found leaflets on her from the banned Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir. However, Ms. Boltova insisted that these leaflets were planted. The Prosecutor had reportedly demanded that she receive a three year jail sentence, which demand Judge Zainuddin Begmatov did not accept. Judge Begmatov, who presided at all three sessions of the trial, imposed the one year suspended sentence for Ms. Boltobayeva's alleged breaching of both article 25 of the Criminal Code (preparation for a crime or attempt to commit a crime) and article 159 (undermining the constitutional order).