E/CN.4/2003/66 page 12 Jordan 53. The Special Rapporteur has been informed that Siham Suleiman Moussa Qandah, a Christian mother of two, was deprived of custody of her children on the grounds that her husband had converted to Islam before his death and that, since her children had therefore automatically also become Muslims, they should be placed in the care of her brother, who had converted to Islam several years previously. Ms. Qandah reportedly applied to the Irbid court of first instance and then to the Appeals Court; on 22 January 2002, the Appeals Court upheld the lower court’s ruling that Ms. Qandah had proved herself unfit to be the guardian of her children by distancing them from Islamic rituals and doctrine. On 28 February 2002, the Supreme Court likewise rejected her appeal and authorized the children’s transfer to the brother’s home. Ms. Qandah and her two children, Rawan Hussam Rasmi Jibreen and Fadi Hussam Rasmi Jibreen, are said to have been living in hiding since then. Myanmar 54. The first communication sent to Myanmar is summarized in paragraph 40 of the above-mentioned report. The second concerns the following incidents. 55. Two prominent Christian leaders from Dagon North township, Rev. That Ci and his son-in-law, Rev. Lian Za Dal, were reportedly arrested on 5 April 2002 and transferred to Insein prison, where they are said to be still detained. Allegedly warned to stop proselytizing, holding church services and constructing a church, they were reportedly arrested, along with eight members of their family, for having allegedly failed to register house guests when his daughter and son-in-law came to spend the night at his house. 56. The Special Rapporteur wishes to recall that, in its resolution 2002/67, the Commission on Human Rights deplored, inter alia, the restrictions on the exercise of freedom of religion, such as the restriction on the building of new mosques and churches and forced conversions, notably of Muslims in Rakhine State and Christians in Chin State, and the discrimination against children belonging to ethnic and religious minorities. Nigeria 57. See paragraphs 41 to 44 of the above-mentioned report. Pakistan 58. Three of the four communications sent this year to Pakistan are mentioned in paragraphs 45 to 49 of the above-mentioned report. 59. In the week of 1 to 7 July 2002, a mentally disturbed man, Zahid Mahmood Akhtar, was reportedly stoned to death in the village of Chak Jumra by hundreds of villagers after the cleric allegedly used a megaphone to issue a fatwa ordering his execution. Detained in 1994 on charges of blasphemy and released three years later on the grounds that he was mentally ill, the man had allegedly claimed to be the “last prophet of Islam”.