E/CN.4/1993/62 page 42 cities of Karaj and Aran in Kashan and were compelled to close their stores. Large numbers of Baha’is reportedly continue to be unemployed while numerous retirement pensions have been terminated. In addition, members of the Baha’i faith, who are said to only be allowed to bury their dead in cemeteries specifically designated by the Government, are allegedly prohibited from marking the graves of their co-religionists which makes them almost impossible to identify even for family members. According to the sources, members of the Baha’i community have continued to be arrested and detained because of their faith. It has been reported that on 1 April 1992, Mr. Hussain Eshraghi, an elderly follower of the Baha’i faith, was arbitrarily arrested in Isfahan. In addition, three Baha’i women were reportedly arrested in Sari on 21 May 1992 for talking about their faith to a non-Baha’i who was also arrested on that occasion. On 31 May 1992, a woman belonging to the Baha’i community is said to have been arrested in Shahinshahr, Isfahan, for talking about her faith to a non-Baha’i friend who was also arrested on that occasion and subsequently released. As of 1 July 1992, eight members of the Baha’i community were reportedly imprisoned. A woman who was found guilty in December 1991 of ’belonging to the misguided Baha’i sect, of activities for its illegal administration, and of leaving the Islamic Republic of Iran’ had all her belongings confiscated, ’whether known or unknown or whether she has registered them in her name or in the name of others... all her belongings were put at the disposal of the appointed Trustees of the Institutions of Religious Leadership’. In December 1991, the Committee of Administrative Offences of the National Steel Company of Iran permanently dismissed an employee from his government post ’in view of the fact that the offence committed by this person is clear in that he belongs to the misguided sect which is recognized as being outside the domain of Islam’. Upon ’unanimous consent on the part of all present’, a provincial Ministry of Education and Development convicted a person in May 1991 to ’permanent dismissal from any government post’ since a letter ’issued from a legal source indicates that the person concerned belongs to the misguided Baha’i sect’ and that ’during the interview he stated that he is a Baha’i’. The Court of Administrative Justice issued a decision in November 1990 ’in relation to the complaint of the retired and dismissed ... regarding the discontinuance of his pension’ that ’there are no grounds for further investigation of this case and the complaint is hereby rejected’, since the Office of Insurance and Pensions of the Army ’has declared ... that his pension has been suspended due to his membership in the misguided Baha’i sect’. A former employee of the Tehran University Department of Public Health ’was found guilty of the crime of membership in the Baha’i sect and was permanently dismissed from his government post and therefore his pension was discontinued’. The Court of Administrative Justice decided in January 1991 that ’there are no legal grounds to pay the pension or to bring back the above file into circulation’.