E/CN.4/2005/61/Add.1 Page 8 Government declared the sect to be non-Muslim. This was reportedly the latest of a series of similar attempts by Islamist groups to prevent the Ahmadiyyas from openly practising their beliefs, and had led to incidents of the Islamist groups’ trying to shut down community centres, putting up hate signs on their places of worship and confiscating their religious materials and prayer books. 25. Moreover, the editors and journalists at the largest Bangladesh daily, Prothom Alo, were reportedly threatened with attacks by an Islamist group for publishing investigative reports about the activities of a number of madrasas (religious schools) in rural areas. It was believed that editors and journalists of other newspapers had received similar threats. 26. On 10 November 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication regarding Islamic groups that had allegedly attacked an Ahmadiyya place of worship in Brahmanbaria on 29 October 2004, as a result of which at least 11 Ahmadiyyas suffered serious injuries. Islamist groups then threatened to carry out the attacks more frequently and without prior notice. It was reported that they had named Ahmadiyya places of worship as the targets of their attacks every Friday during noon prayer time. Places of worship in Narayangonj and Nakhalpara were allegedly of special concern. In Nakhalpara, flyers had been distributed calling for the culmination of a year-long anti-Ahmadi campaign in a “celebration” that would create a “mass explosion” while in Narayangonj, announcements had been made that attacks against the Ahmadiyya community would take place in the run-up to Eid ul Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. 27. By letter of 16 November 2004, the Government of Bangladesh responded to the communication of 10 November 2004 and reiterated the information provided in its letter of 24 May 2004 (see above). The Government also made clear that there would be no change in the religious status of the Ahmadiyyas. Follow-up to previously transmitted communications 28. By letter of 19 August 2004, the Government of Bangladesh responded to a communication sent by the Special Rapporteur on 11 April 2003 and provided the following information: (a) On 22 April 2002, Gyan Jyoti Barua, a Buddhist monk in Rawzan, Chittagong, was reportedly murdered in his bedroom by a group of 10-15 unknown assailants. The same day, a case was lodged in this connection under section 302/34380 of the Bangladesh Penal Code with Rawzan Police Station. A special team of investigators headed by an Assistant Superintendent of Police of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the City Zone was assigned to the case, under the direct supervision of a Special Superintendent of Chittagong Police and an Additional Inspector General of CID. The Home Minister, the Foreign Minister and the Inspector General of Police visited the site after the incident and directed that every effort should be made to bring to justice all those believed to be involved. Subsequently, on 21 December 2002, one Elias Mohammad, alias Yar Mahmood, was arrested and made a confession implicating himself and six other persons namely, Azizul Haque, Nurul Islam, Putul Barua, Zahir, Gyas and Manik,