A/HRC/4/21/Add.1 page 68 draft provides that the founders of religious organizations and unions must submit signatures from 200 citizens in support of the establishment of a religious association in any given town or settlement. For a central religious association to be established 800 signatures are required for a Muslim association and 600 are required for a non-Muslim association. Other draft articles include the condition that any religious organisation or union must have at least twenty founding members (article 4); allowing religious education only for children who are older than 7 years old (article 10); only allowing one mosque for villages that have a population of between 200 and 2000 people (article 14). There are concerns that the draft law could lead to limits on the rights of religious communities. Observations 287. The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the Government’s response to the urgent appeal sent on 1 March 2006 and for having extended an invitation to visit the country. Consequently, she will address the question of the destruction of a synagogue in Dushanbe as well as the draft law in her report that will be submitted subsequent to the visit that she will carry out to Tajikistan in February/March 2007. Thailand Communication sent on 2 June 2006 jointly with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people 288. The Special Rapporteurs raised concern on information they had received concerning the desecration of Hmong graves in Wat Tham Krabok. According to the allegations, monastery officials from the Wat Tham Krabok Buddhist monastery, which was formerly used as a Hmong refugee camp, have been exhuming Hmong graves. There are said to be about 2,000 Hmong graves in the Monastery. According to monastery officials the reason for digging up the graves is that they were contaminating the Monastery’s water supply. Relatives of the Hmong people buried at Wat Tham Krabok were not given notice of the exhumations. The Hmong consider graveyards to be sacred sites. The exhumations sometimes include dismemberment, separation of parts of the corpses and cremation, which violates Hmong religious and cultural tradition. Observations 289. The Special Rapporteur is concerned that she has not received a reply from the Government concerning the above mentioned allegation. She would like to refer to her framework for communications, more specifically to the international human rights norms and to the mandate practice concerning “Freedom to worship” (see above para. 1, category I. 3. a) and “Places of worship” (category I. 3. b). 290. As she noted in her 2005 report to the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2005/61, paras. 49-51): “Moreover, the Special Rapporteur notes that in addition to places of worship, different types of buildings or properties that have more than a material signification for the religious community that is attached to it, such as cemeteries, monasteries or community headquarters, have been targeted. Finally, while attacks on such places have usually been committed by non-State actors, other forms of harm or restrictions were usually committed or imposed by State authorities. Regarding, in particular, attacks on places of worship, the Special

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