E/CN.4/1993/62 page 13 6. The cases of the Tibetans listed in the Special Rapporteur’s communication Upon investigation, it transpires that the Chinese Government has already replied to inquiries about some of the Tibetans on the list and the replies were incorporated into your report to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-seventh session. The remaining names are now being investigated by the appropriate Chinese ministries." 22. In a communication sent on 18 November 1992 addressed to the Government of China, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "Information concerning Buddhists The Special Rapporteur has continued to receive information concerning the exercise of the freedom of religion in Tibet which reportedly remains subjected to the control of the authorities through the Religious Affairs Bureau, the Tibetan Buddhist Association and the Democratic Management Committees. Religious practice is reportedly still reduced to superficial ritualistic manifestations of faith such as prostration, circumambulation of holy places, flying of prayer flags and the spinning of prayer wheels. Pilgrimages to religious sites have also been restricted and the Monlam Prayer Festival has remained prohibited since 1989. The practice of Buddhism continues to be restricted to monasteries and places officially designated for worship and the teachers allowed to give public teachings within monasteries and nunneries are carefully selected. In February 1991, the Party Central Committee and the State Council are reported to have jointly issued Document No. 6 on ’Making Further Progress on Certain Problems in Religious Work’. It refers, inter alia, to the ’implementation of laws, regulations and policies concerning religion through which the Government exercises administrative management and supervision over it.’, adding: ’The patriotic religious organizations and the professional religious personnel are responsible for supervising them in accordance with the principles of democratic management. ... Approval of the People’s Government above the county level must be obtained in order to open new places for religious activity’. As concerns foreign religious bodies or individuals, they are not ’permitted to establish a business office, build churches and temples or carry out missionary activity in our country’ and any agreement on cooperation that may be signed ’should not contain articles permitting missionary work’. The approval of the State Council is required for participation in ’a prominent activity overseas’. The document stipulates in addition that ’if important and influential religious persons come to China to visit or for tourism, the Affairs Bureau should be notified’. The patriotic religious organizations, ’should accept the leadership of the party and Government’, which would ’help them to solve problems connected with the carrying out of their work, such as office space, expenses, and the difficulties in some places concerning the livelihood of religious professionals’. In addition, the authorities would ’help them to train in a planned and organized way a band of religious professionals who fervently love