E/CN.4/2005/61/Add.1 Page 39 monthly wage. The judge also reportedly ordered the church to close for six months. According to the information received, Pastor Kliver was twice fined in 2003 for leading his Baptist congregation without State registration. 150. On 6 May 2004, Pastor Pyotr Panafidin, who leads a Baptist church in Taraz, was reportedly summoned to the City Court after prosecutors had established that he led an unregistered congregation. The judge reportedly found him guilty under article 375, Part 1, of the Administrative Code and fined him 1,838 tenge. 151. Concerns have also been expressed that at least five churches of the International Council of Evangelical Christians/Baptists, which allegedly refused to register with the State authorities, had been raided or fined in 2004. 152. Finally, members of religious communities were concerned about the existence of a draft law on “combating extremist activity” and amendments to existing laws concerning the “battle against extremist activity” which did not reportedly define what “extremism” constitutes. Concern had been expressed that the word “religious” appeared 10 times in the draft law and that the proposed measures could be used against religious communities such as the unregistered Baptists. It was reported that article 1 of the draft law defined extremism in such a vague manner that the definition could allegedly be applied to any religious association. According to the information received, article 6 of the draft law substantially strengthened State control over the life of religious communities although no definition of “extremist” was given. Kyrgyzstan 153. On 15 March 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication to the Government of Kyrgyzstan in connection with information received according to which six of the nine mosques in the district of Kararya, near Jalalabad, had started to be destroyed on the orders of the head of the district, Asan Erinbayev. In May 2003 the six mosques were allegedly closed down despite being registered with the Government’s Commission on Religious Affairs. Mr. Erinbayev reportedly justified the destruction of the mosques on the grounds that they had been built illegally on State-owned land. Mr. Erinbayev reportedly declared that this would enable him to “monitor the activities of the imams in [his] territory”. 154. In the same communication, the Special Rapporteur mentioned the situation of the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ, which has allegedly been banned from registering in several towns. It was also reported that the Pentecostal Church was facing a tax bill of more than US$ 100,000 even though religious groups are taxexempt. The authorities had reportedly threatened to seize a church building in Bishkek if the tax was not paid. 155. By letter dated 7 May 2004, the Government of Kyrgyzstan responded that according to the Adviser on Religious Affairs to the Governor of Jalal-Abad, the information concerning the closure and destruction of six mosques was completely false. According to information from the deputy head of the Kara Darya ayil okmotu (village authority), there are three villages in the area with a total population of 11,500 and there are 17 mosques, built at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. Most of the mosques were built spontaneously without authorization