A/HRC/13/40/Add.1 general comment no. 22 emphasizes that “[i]f a set of beliefs is treated as official ideology in constitutions, statutes, proclamations of ruling parties, etc., or in actual practice, this shall not result in any impairment of the freedoms under article 18 or any other rights recognized under the Covenant nor in any discrimination against persons who do not accept the official ideology or who oppose it”. 124. Furthermore, she would also like to refer to the report of the Special Rapporteur on torture on his mission to Indonesia (A/HRC/7/3/Add.7), in which he had expressed concern “about penalties provided for by Sharia law, such as public flogging, incorporated into the 2005 Aceh Criminal Code”, also indicating that “women are disproportionally affected by corporal punishment provided for by the Aceh Criminal Code, which is based on Sharia law”. The Special Rapporteur would also like to take this opportunity to reiterate her wish to visit Indonesia in the framework of the mandate (see A/HRC/10/8/Add.1, para. 69). K. 1. (a) Iran (Islamic Republic of) Urgent appeal sent on 21 January 2008 jointly with the Chairperson of the Working Group on arbitrary detention Allegations transmitted to the Government 125. The Special Procedures mandate holders brought to the attention of the Government information they had received regarding the arrest and continued detention of Ms. Haleh Roohi, Ms. Raha Sabet and Mr. Sassan Taqva. These three members of the Bahá’í community in the city of Shiraz have already been the subject of two joint communications sent on 9 June 2006 and 13 June 2006 (see A/HRC/4/21/Add.1, paras. 195-203 and the summary of the Government’s reply in paras. 204-205). According to new allegations, subsequent to the arrest and temporary detention of Ms. Haleh Roohi, Ms. Raha Sabet and Mr. Sassan Taqva in May 2006, a court in Shiraz sentenced each of them in August 2007 to a total of four years’ imprisonment. Summaries of this communication as well as observations of the Special Rapporteur are already reproduced in A/HRC/10/8/Add.1, paras. 86-89. (b) Response from the Government dated 14 July 2009 126. In its response dated 14 July 2009, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran indicated that a three-member Bahá’í group, by forging I.D. cards and introducing themselves falsely as representatives of Government institutions such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Islamic Guidance, Center for Children and Youth Education etc., deceived people for cooperation and recruited 61 young individuals for their activities. The Government stated that this group also fabricated titles of non-governmental organizations as a result of which they had filed complaints against the group. 127. The Government argued that the presence of a number of non-Bahá’ís among the members of the group proved the absence of a connection between the religious beliefs of the arrested individuals and their activities. According to statements by the relevant authorities, the group of 64 persons were arrested merely due to their illegal activities. After completion of judicial investigations, 10 persons were released unconditionally, 51 were released on bail 48 hours after their arrest. Three individuals, the principal organizers of the illegal entity, remained on remand custody, but later on they were also released on bail. The representatives of Bahá’ís in Geneva then claimed in an interview with Citizen Newspaper from Canada that the activities of the Bahá’í group were in the framework of UNICEF educational programmes in Iran, which – according to the Government – was strongly rejected by the UNICEF office in Tehran. The Government indicated that this was not the first case of illegal activities of Bahá’í groups in Iran and that the dissemination of 34