E/CN.4/1989/44 paqe 42 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 75. In a communication of 21 July 1988 addressed to the Government concerned, the followinq information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "It has been alleqed that there were still, in March 1988, 225 known believers detained for reliqious activities or for human rights activities motivated by reliqious faith. "Russian Orthodox Deacon and historian (name provided) reportedly remains in Perm Labor Camp 35 on charqes of anti-Soviet aqitation and propaganda for having criticized the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy's co-operation with the Government. "(Two names provided), two Roman Catholic priests are reportedly serving 10- and 7-year sentences respectively in labour camp for their religious activities. It is reported that one of the charges lodged against (one name provided) was organizing a Christmas party for parish youth. "(One name provided) has allegedly been confined in internal exile for 27 years without having been formally tried or convicted. "The following Roman Catholics from Lithuania are reported to have been detained in psychiatric hospitals for various periods, most of them in the 1960s or 1970s, on religious grounds: (six names provided). "Charqes lodged against them reportedly include erecting a cross and possessinq an underqround Roman Catholic publication. "Eiqht members of the Pentecostal community in Chuquevka were reportedly still imprisoned in 1987. A member of the Pentecostal Church (one name provided) was reportedly rearrested in camp and sentenced to another three years in a strict regime camp. "Other unregistered believers, including some Baptists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and Hare Krishna believers, have reportedly been subjected to measures such as harassment at school or place of employment, denial of access to housinq and educational and job opportunities, dismissal from work and imprisonment. It was also reported that authorities forcibly broke up a number of Ukrainian Catholic Christmas celebrations and that a number of Ukrainian Catholics, such as (one name provided), remain in labour camp or special psychiatric hospitals on the qrounds of their membership in a forbidden 'reliqious sect'. Some Baptist believers are allegedly being detained in psychiatric hospitals (one name provided) or labour camps (one name provided). "It has been alleged that the teaching of Hebrew remains illegal. "It has been reported that there were at least 17 Muslims imprisoned on religious grounds by the end of 1987."