E/CN.4/2005/61/Add.1 Page 19 68. Moreover, reports indicated that the Party-appointed committees, also called the mosque's "democratic management committee", must conduct regular sessions for religious professionals and lay persons disseminating legal regulations and Party policies. Such committees allegedly oversee activities in places of worship and are also known to exist in Tibetan Buddhist temples. 69. Finally, it was alleged that national-religious committees, which form part of the administration of every city, also maintain control over the lives of believers. Communities may only function once they have registered with the national-religious committee, and their leaders have to be drawn from people whose candidacy has been approved by the authorities. The leaders of all religious communities reportedly have to attend meetings of the national-religious committees during which officials explain to them what policy they should pursue with believers. 70. The Special Rapporteur also brought to the Government’s attention information she had received according to which, following what was believed to be the largest survey to date on the extent to which the Chinese Government's Golden Shield Internet firewall denies access to religious web sites, certain religious web sites appear to be consistently blocked, although Chinese Internet users do have access to a range of web sites based outside the country that cover religious themes in Chinese or other languages. The tests that led to this conclusion were reportedly carried out from mid-May to mid-July 2004 and monitored Internet access in a variety of locations in China. The web sites to which access is reportedly automatically barred included those relating to the persecution of Christians and other religious faiths, the Dalai Lama, the Falun Gong religious movement, the Muslim Uigurs of Xinjiang and a number of Catholic sites, including the web site of the Hong Kong diocese and the Divine Word Missionaries in Taiwan. However, the web sites in European languages covering religious freedom issues, including those covering repression within China, were not blocked. 71. It was further reported that, in an alleged attempt to help remove "unacceptable" content from the web, the authorities launched a web site in June 2004 encouraging users to report "illegal" sites, including those on religious cult activity. Reports indicated that while "reporters" were assured of the confidentiality of the information they provided, they were warned that they would bear personal responsibility for reporting erroneous information. Observations 72. The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the replies provided by the Government on 31 December 2004 related to the communications of 15 and 19 October 2004. The content of these replies, which are still being translated, will be reflected in next year’s report. 73. The Special Rapporteur still awaits a reply to her communication of 3 November 2004. In this regard, she would like to refer to the most recent concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of 9 August 2001 (A/56/18, paras. 231-255) in which some members of the Committee remained “concerned with regard to the actual enjoyment of the right to freedom of