E/CN.4/1993/62 page 112 Tran Mai, the leader of a house church in southern Viet Nam who is in his mid-thirties, was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City on 31 October 1991 and alleged to have been charged with ’using religious activities to fight the Government’. He is reportedly serving a three-year administrative detention sentence in a labour camp at Tong Le Chan, Song Be province. According to the sources, he has not been formally tried or convicted. Ha Wan, a minister belonging to the Koho minority, has reportedly been detained in a prison in Dam Dong province since December 1991. Rev. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, has been detained since December 1989, allegedly without having been formally tried or convicted. He is said to have been beaten on several occasions. Rev. Dang Van Sung, who served as missionary with the Xtieng tribal minority, has reportedly been detained since 1975 in the Phuoc Long district. No news of him has been received since that time. Pastor Nguyen Chu and Pastor A Uot were reportedly arrested between 1989 and 1990 and are reportedly detained without trial. Pastors Phan Quang Thieu, Le Quang Trung, Vu Minx Xuan and Hoang Van Phung are alleged to have been arrested in 1991,in Ho Chi Minh City and in the central highlands on charges of, inter alia, ’pursuing religious activities without permission’, and are reportedly detained on the basis of a People’s Committee administrative order. Pastor Ai Nguyen has reportedly also been arrested for preaching without a licence and is said to have been sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in a labour camp. Mr Minh and Mr Son, Christian elders, held meetings for the members of the closed Than My church. According to the information received, they were arrested in April 1990 at Don Duong, near Dalat. Mr Y De and Mr Y Thang, have been detained since 1989, reportedly for their religious activities. Twenty-four Christians from the Jeh tribe have reportedly been imprisoned since the beginning of 1990 in Dak Lay, Gia Lai province. Rev. Vo Xuan, a house church leader in southern Viet Nam, was allegedly taken into custody on 4 December 1989 for meeting with other Christians and was charged with ’disturbing the peace’. Shortly before his detention, he reportedly baptized several persons. Rev. Xuan reportedly refused to sign a false confession and was held in administrative detention in a security prison in Thuan Hai province, without being allowed to receive family visits for four months, until April 1990. He is reported not to have been formally tried or convicted and was released in December 1991. According to the sources, Rev. Xuan had previously spent 13 years in a re-education camp until April 1987 because he used to be a military chaplain in the South Vietnamese army.