E/CN.4/1995/91 page 17 reportedly been split up according to their religious beliefs, with the Sunnites being separated from the Shiites. In 1994, a document written by Sheikh Abu Bakr Jaber al Jagain, entitled Hadhihi Nasihati Ila Kul Shii (Advice to all Shiites), which claimed that the Shiites were apostates and should be converted to Sunnite Islam, was said to have been circulated in the camp. On 10 August 1990, a former refugee from the Rafha camp allegedly stated that the security agents guarding the camp insulted the Shiites, called them apostates and trampled on their holy soil. That situation of religious discrimination allegedly continued throughout 1993. In addition to the religious discrimination against the Christian and Shiite minorities, the Special Rapporteur was informed of the severe measures taken against any form of peaceful dissent by Islamic groups. On 12 May 1993, the Committee to Defend Legitimate Rights (CDLR), which had been formed on 3 May by recognized and respected Islamic figures, including six Islamic jurists and university professors, was allegedly denounced as a violation of Islamic law and banned by the Council of Senior Scholars. On 13 May, the founders of the CDLR were allegedly dismissed from their government posts and the offices of two lawyers in private practice were allegedly closed by royal order. Dr. Muhammed al Mas’ari, a CDLR spokesman and a physics professor at King Saud University, was reportedly arrested on 15 May for disobeying an order prohibiting the communication of any information on the CDLR to the foreign press. Lawyers sympathetic to the CDLR were allegedly also penalized by having their offices closed. One of them, Sulaiman al Rushudi was allegedly arrested. Sixty university professors close to the CDLR were said to have been dismissed from their posts and/or forbidden to travel. According to reports received, an Indian journalist, Sivaramy Balaram, was arrested on 11 July 1993 for having published, in a paper called Arab News, a comic strip in which the central character doubted the existence of God and in the end discovered that he existed." In an urgent appeal of 12 September 1994 addressed to the Saudi Government, the Special Rapporteur transmitted the following information: "According to the information I received, Mr. Sherif Fahmy Ishak would have been arrested and detained since the beginning of August for possessing Christian pictures and the Holy Bible in his house in Riyadh. I would be most grateful to the Government of Saudi Arabia for its views and comments on the allegation I have received". Austria In a communication sent to the Austrian Government on 20 October 1994 the Special Rapporteur transmitted the following comments: "According to information received, the Jehovah’s Witnesses reportedly constituting a community of some 20,000 believers, have been refused any official recognition as a religion despite their requests.