A/HRC/7/10/Add.1 page 58 religious tolerance and harmony that has so far prevailed in Sri Lanka.” Tajikistan Communication sent on 21 August 2007 245. The Special Rapporteur brought to the attention of the Government information she had received concerning the draft religion law. Allegedly, in June 2007, the Ministry of Culture has produced a draft law “On Freedom of Conscience, on Religious Associations and Other Organizations”. Various religious communities have voiced their concerns that the draft law establishes a burdensome registration procedure for religious organizations and that it gives the competent state agency on religious affairs a wide authority over the religious organizations. For state registration of a church, its founders are required to submit an application with signatures of 400 followers for establishing a church in a district or 800 signatures in a city (or 1.200 signatures in the city of Dushanbe). The draft law relates the establishing of mosques to the number of the population in a territorial unit of the Republic of Tajikistan, i.e. another mosque can only be established if thresholds between 2.000 and 60.000 people in a village, settlement, city or Dushanbe City have been reached. 246. Furthermore, the draft law prohibits actions directed to converting believers of one confession into others as well as any other charitable or missionary activity having a nature of intellectual, mental or other pressure to citizens in proselyte aims. According to the draft law, only citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan who have special religious education can be heads of religious organizations. The draft law seems to restrict the production, export, import and dissemination or religious literature to religious organizations, thus excluding any such activity of non-registered religious entities. Finally, the draft law provides that all religious organizations that already exist must re-register under the provisions of the new draft law. 247. There are concerns that the draft law of June 2007 could lead to undue limitations on the rights of religious communities and could impermissibly restrict religious activities of religious minorities. The Special Rapporteur also referred to her communication dated 18 May 2006 concerning a previous draft law in early 2006 entitled “About the freedom of conscience and religious unions” (see A/HRC/4/21/Add.1, para. 286). 248. Moreover, it was reported that the Ministry of Culture recently published a list of officially banned religious literature which allegedly consists primarily of documents by Hizb-ut Tahrir. The Special Rapporteur also requested the Government to send her a copy of the list of banned religious literature and explain the legal procedure of prohibiting religious literature. Observations 249. The Special Rapporteur regrets that she has not received a reply from the Government concerning the above mentioned allegation. She already commented on the previous 2006 draft law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” in the report after her country visit to Tajikistan (A/HRC/7/10/Add.2). The draft law “On Freedom of Conscience, on Religious Associations and Other Organizations” of June 2007 also contains provisions which would be difficult to reconcile with international human rights standards if the draft law was adopted in this form. The Special Rapporteur would like to emphasize that registration should not be a