E/CN.4/1999/58/Add.2 page 30 (e) The movement of clergy from the different communities in order to attend religious functions, in geographical areas not usually under their jurisdiction, is subject to approval by the authorities. (f) The building and renovation of religious communities' places of worship is subject to approval by the authorities. The restoration of places of worship confiscated after 1975 seems to be left to the goodwill of the authorities, who, Directives Nos. 379/TTg and 500 HD/TGCP notwithstanding, usually react indifferently or unfavourably to requests from the religious communities for reappropriation. (g) The publication of religious and cultural works and religious journals is subject to State interference, to the extent that the authorities do not allow the religious communities to have their own printing houses. Control, which may take the form of censorship, is therefore exercised through the only existing printing houses, which are State-run. (h) The religious communities are not, generally speaking, authorized to extend their religious activities into social, health or educational matters. In addition, the cultural, educational, social and hospital functions removed from the religious communities after 1975 have generally not been restored by the authorities. 118. The Unified Buddhist Church of Viet Nam (EBUV) and the unofficial Khmer Krom, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao organizations are prohibited in that the authorities restrict legal recognition to a single religious organization per denomination. These “legal” associations therefore have a monopoly of representation and management where religious matters are concerned, it being understood that their representatives must accommodate the authorities' concerns and agree to control over and interference in their religious activities. Consequently, the unofficial organizations mentioned above are not permitted to carry out any religious activities, subject to penalties by the authorities in the form of various measures (surveillance, harassment, house arrest, arrest, administrative detention, prison, re-education camp, confiscation of religious property, etc.). 119. The situation with regard to the Protestant denominations of ethnic minorities seems to be even more disturbing, as, in addition to the measures applied to the EBUV and unofficial Khmer Krom, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao organizations, there have been cases of destruction of places of worship and of ill-treatment aimed at forcing these minorities to give up their newly adopted faith. The authorities are, it seems, dropping their attitude of de facto recognition and laissez-faire and gradually prohibiting those minorities which are experiencing a large number of conversions from exercising any religious activity and hence any manifestation of freedom of religion. What is more, in their opposition to these minorities' newly adopted faith, the authorities appear to be interfering with the deepest feelings of the faithful. Such interference may definitely be regarded as a violation of freedom of religion as such. 120. The religious prisoners belonging to the different religious communities (to the Special Rapporteur's knowledge, Buddhists, Catholics, Cao Dais, Hoa Haos and Protestants) are deprived of their religious freedom in that