E/CN.4/2005/61/Add.1 Page 65 Special Rapporteur as being prescribed for Vraniskovski and therefore it was not possible to impose such a measure. 250. Furthermore, in another case dated 11 January 2004, a citizen called the Bitola Internal Affairs Department reporting that in Vraniskovski’s apartment in Bitola, Vraniskovski and about 30 priests and their followers performed religious services, violating the peace of the neighbours. A written complaint was submitted by 17 citizens living in the same block of flats, stating that Vraniskovski on several occasions performed religious ceremonies in the apartment. 251. After these complaints, and upon an order of the Investigating Judge of the Bitola First Instance Court, authorized officers of the Bitola Internal Affairs Department checked the identity of the persons in the apartment and searched it, finding and impounding a flare gun, which Vraniskovski and 11 other persons were taken to the Bitola Internal Affairs Department to investigate the case. 252. After the facts of the case had been established, the Bitola Internal Affairs Department instituted criminal charges against Zoran Vraniskovski for the crime of “causing national, racial, religious hatred, discord and intolerance”, while the Bitola First Instance Court Investigative Judge prescribed the measure of 30 days’ detention. 253. With regard to the 11 other persons, the Bitola Internal Affairs Department submitted misdemeanor charges for the offence “violation of the peace through singing, use of musical instruments, radio and TV and other devices”, in accordance with the Law against Violations of the Public Peace and Order. 254. Considering the allegations that the Macedonian border police have prevented monks, priests and bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from entering Macedonia dressed in their church vestments, the Government reported the following registered cases of prohibited entry of foreign priests: (a) On 30 May 2003, at the Medzltlija border crossing, four Greek priests tried to enter Macedonia and based on discussions with police officers on duty it was established that they had been invited by the Metropolitan of Strumica to go to Ohrid, but they did not have any written document or approval from the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities and Groups. Hence they were not allowed entry in the Republic of Macedonia; (b) The next day, at the same border crossing, priests with 15 students of the Thessalonica Theological Faculty stated that they wanted to go to Ohrid to visit the churches. However, since they did not have an invitation, or any other evidence for previously arranged visit issued by Macedonian Church organs nor an approval from the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities and Groups they were not allowed entry in the Republic of Macedonia; (c) On 10 June 2003, at the Tabanovce border crossing, two priests from Serbia and Montenegro were not allowed entry into Macedonia since they did not have an invitation or any other evidence for a previously arranged visit issued by Macedonian Church organs or an approval by the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities and Groups. Such conduct of the police service is in accordance with the Law on Crossing the State Border and Movement in the Border