E/CN.4/1993/62 page 110 resulting in malnutrition, illness and lengthy indoctrination sessions. For example, Buddhist monk Yoshida Ganshin is said to have lost the use of his legs after 13 years of incarceration in a re-education camp where he was subjected to electric shock torture. It has further been alleged that prisoners who are ill and unable to work are not allowed to eat normal rations since their working capacity is diminished. Handicapped persons who work less are said to be also forced to eat less. For instance, they are allegedly allowed only 12 kilograms of rice per month instead of the subsistence ration of 15 kilograms of rice which most prisoners are said to receive. It has also been alleged that many prisoners are not allowed to receive packages of food sent by their families. According to the sources, the aforementioned prisoners of conscience are mixed with common criminals in some cases. In many instances, no doctors or medicines are allegedly available for the prisoners who are forced to resort to the use of traditional medicines such as herbs and roots, when they are available. As a result of the above, inmates are said to die at the rate of 10 to 15 per cent a year. According to the information received, numerous priests and religious believers as well as persons who are said to have been critical of the church hierarchy and the Government, are currently alleged to be detained in a type of administrative detention which does not involve a formal trial or sentencing. The majority of these persons is reportedly detained in labour and re-education camps. The situation of a number of these persons has been summarized as follows: Cases involving Protestant clergy and religious believers: Rev. Tran Dinh Ai, the leader of a house church movement in southern Viet Nam, was arrested on 27 February 1991, allegedly because of his contacts with the overseas Pentecostal church. Rev. Ai was reportedly sentenced to three years of administrative detention, without going on trial or being convicted. He is said to have initially been detained at Phan-dinh-Luu prison in Ho Chi Minh City and was not allowed to receive family visits for four months. In November, he was moved to a labour camp in Song Be province and is reported to be suffering from severe headaches, back pain and a liver infection. Pastor R’Mah Boi, a young Christian leader in the highland districts of Chu Pa, Gia Lai, and Kontum, belongs to the Jerai minority. He was arrested in August 1989 reportedly for organizing a working party of about 200 tribesmen of Christian faith to help 2 tribal elders who had been ordered by officials to harvest a large rice field when they were caught holding house church meetings. Pastor Boi is said to have been detained and imprisoned on the basis of Administrative Law No. 135. He has reportedly not been formally tried or convicted and is believed to be in arbitrary detention at prison camp A-20 in Dong Xuan, Phu Yen province. Pastor Vo Minh Hung, a minister from Pleiku, is said to have been arrested for the third time in December 1989 during a house church meeting in his home. He was reportedly detained for the first time for 1 week and the