E/CN.4/1993/62 page 43 With regard to the complaint a former employee of the National Department of Forestry and Prairies concerning the discontinuation of his pension payments, in June 1991 the Court of Administrative Justice did ’not find the complaint acceptable’, ’taking into consideration the fact that the complainant has not denied membership in the misguided sect’ and ’due to the fact that membership in the misguided Baha’i sect, a sect which is considered to be outside of Islam, is cause for dismissal from all government posts, with all that it might imply’. The Office of Insurance and Pensions of the Ministry of Defence and Support of Armed Forces wrote to a former employee in September 1991: ’Based on the information received, you are a Baha’i and therefore not entitled to pension payments. However, should you convert to Islam and demonstrate remorse for having been a Baha’i and further provide this office with proof that you have embraced Islam, steps will be taken to restore pension payments to you.’" 38. In a subsequent communication sent on 30 September 1992 addressed to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "According to the information received, two Iranian citizens belonging to the Baha’i faith, Mr. Bihnam Mithaqi and Mr. Kayvan Khalajabadi, may be facing imminent execution on account of their religious beliefs. Messrs. Mithaqi and Khalajabadi, who have reportedly been arrested three years ago and detained in Gohardasht prison in Karaj, are said to have recently been summoned by the prison authorities and informed orally that an Islamic Revolutionary Court had issued a death sentence against them due to their Baha’i faith. It has further been alleged that the trials at which Mr. Mithaqi and Mr. Khalajabadi were sentenced took place in the absence of their defence counsel and it is not known whether all legal remedies have been fully exhausted. It was reported that the two Muslim lawyers who had been engaged by the defendants in this case resigned for lack of possibility to continue with their work, after having taken a number of initial steps." Iraq 39. In a communication sent on 4 November 1991 addressed to the Government of Iraq, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur (E/CN.4/1992/52, para. 55) as follows: "According to the information received, the Shia Muslim community has been and continues to be subjected to practices inconsistent with the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, which jeopardize its religious identity and heritage. The systematic destruction of the majority of mosques, Husseiniyas (religious gathering places for commemorating the martyrdom of Iman Hussein), religious schools, libraries, cemeteries and other historic sites in the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala has been reported. Numerous cemeteries and graveyards are said to have been desecrated and razed and burials have allegedly been prohibited in many of these facilities. The principal public libraries and private collections, some of which contained rare religious books, manuscripts and other valuable objects, were reportedly