E/CN.4/1992/52 page 37 Followers of the Baha'i faith are reportedly experiencing difficulties in burying their dead in Babul, Babulsar, Chalus, Hamadan, Sari and many other cities. It has been alleged that numerous Baha'i cemeteries have been destroyed or desecrated and that graves have been destroyed while tombstones were removed and sold. It has been reported that two schools have been built in a section of the Baha'i cemetery in Tehran and that the construction of additional buildings in the same cemetery is planned. The following specific cases and incidents have been reported: Dismissal from Government employment The appeal of Mr. Abdul-ali Yazdani from Tehran to receive compensation for his dismissal from the Vahid Autobus Company due to the fact that he is a Baha'i was reportedly turned down by the Committee of the Department of Employment Disputes of the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, in confirmation of the verdict of 23 January 1990, in view of the fact that working relations are severed with the members of this sect and that he himself has explicitly admitted that he is a Baha'i. Mrs. Nayyirih Gandum-Pakkun, a schoolteacher who had been employed by the Ministry of Education, District 5 of Isfahan Province, was reportedly sentenced to permanent dismissal from government offices/services and was charged with 'membership in the misguided Baha'i sect'. The Civil Council for Investigation of Administrative Offences of the Department of Education for Isfahan Province found 'that her guilt is established according to Section 2, Act 19 of the law of the Council of Administrative Offences ... on the basis of the fact that Mrs. Gandum-Pakkun herself admits to being a member of the misguided sect of Baha'ism and is even proud of it' and the verdict of her permanent dismissal from government services was unanimously confirmed. It has been reported that on 17 October 1990, the Civil Council for Investigation of Administrative Offences of the Ministry of Education in Mazandaran Province unanimously decided that Mrs. Varqa'iyyih Talibi, a teacher from Sari, be sentenced to permanent dismissal from government services in view of the fact that, in a letter dated 6 October 1990, 'the accused confirms that she is a member of the misguided Baha'i sect and in the letters addressed to this Council as well as to the headquarters, this fact is personally emphasized by her 1 . On 30 October 1990, Mr. Hadi Gurji Mahfurujaki received a confirmation of his sentence 'to permanent dismissal from government employment as a result of his membership in the misguided Baha'i sect' and his subsequent complaint for nullification of the verdict was also rejected. The Ministry of Justice reportedly indicated that his petition '... was rejected on the grounds of being out of date, and considering the fact that Baha'ism is a belief against God and human dignity, and as with reference to petition dated 30 June 1990, he has clearly stated that he is a member of the misguided Baha'i sect, and further as it is not befitting for the sacred order of the Islamic Republic of Iran which has come into being through the shedding of the blood of hundreds of thousands of sacrificial and godly people, to keep as its member such an individual who openly announces his membership of a sect which is against the