E/CN.4/1992/52 page 39 to infidelity. Therefore, as the infidelity of the late Firaydun Kumayzi is evident to this Court, ...' In addition, it has been indicated that 'If guilt had been proven, application of the 'equality' clause No. 12 ... of the Supreme Court of Appeal, the 'religious blood-money' (Shariah law or canonical law), could have been applied. (This however does not apply in this case because the murdered did not deserve it. This law does not apply to infidels...) ' Situation of Iranian citizens belonging to the Zoroastrian community According to additional information received, followers of the Zoroastrian faith, which is one of the four religions officially recognized by the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, have on occasion been subjected to persecution such as harassment, torture and ill-treatment, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, imprisonment without charges or trial, denial of passports, closing of businesses and denial of employment, attending compulsory classes in Islamic ideology, forcible conversion to Islam and marriage to persons not belonging to the Zoroastrian faith. Situation of Iranian citizens belonging to the Assyrian community According to the information received, members of the Assyrian community, another of the four officially recognized religions, are being harassed and threatened with imprisonment in Orumiyeh, West Azerbeyjan. Assyrian shopkeepers allegedly have to display signs in their shop windows indicating their religious faith, which has entailed a decline in their sales." Iraq 52. In a communication sent on 11 June 1991 addressed to the Government of Iraq, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "According to the information received, the Shia Muslim community in Iraq has been subjected over the past decade to various practices inconsistent with the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination based on Religion or Belief. In particular, it has been alleged that institutions of religious education have been systematically destroyed and religious leaders and scholars persecuted and killed. The Special Rapporteur has received allegations that in the course of recent months, the Shia Muslim community has suffered particular discrimination and that an estimated 20,000 persons were recently killed in the cities of Karbala and Najaf within the framework of an anti-Government uprising which had erupted among the Shia population at the end of the Gulf war. It has also been alleged that the 1,000-year-old universities of Najaf and Karbala have recently been closed down, while the Dar-al-Hikma, Qaswini and Seleemiya schools have sustained significant damage. The Al-Khoei school, located opposite the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, was said to have been razed to the ground.