E/CN.4/1993/62 page 21 Draghla Lhubuk temple; Phurbu and Phuntsok from the Tsomonling monastery in Lhasa; Tenzin from Tashi Choeling monastery; Tsering Dorje from Gyume monastery in Lhasa and Lobsang Choejor from the Ratoe monastery. According to the sources, Jampa (Champa) Tenzin (49), a well-known monk who worked as chapel attendant at the Jhokhang temple in Lhasa, died between 3 and 7 a.m. on 22 February 1992. Jampa Tenzin was reportedly discovered lying in his bed half-covered with a quilt, with a rope around his neck and covered with blood. The end of the rope tied around his neck was allegedly tied to a leg of the bed but the bed had not been tilted. It has also been reported that medical experts have described self-strangulation as virtually impossible to accomplish and not causing extensive bleeding. It has been alleged that the Public Security personnel who examined Jampa Tenzin’s body on the spot declared that he had committed suicide and reportedly made the head of Jhokhang temple sign a document accepting this decision, although the monks at the temple and other inhabitants of Lhasa who knew Jampa Tenzin refute this decision. No thorough formal investigation of the monk’s death was reportedly undertaken by the authorities. Jampa Tenzin was reportedly not known to have ever suffered from depression. In paragraph 22 of his last report to the Commission on Human Rights (document E/CN.4/1992/52), the Special Rapporteur indicated that a number of Tibetan monks had been sentenced to an average of 15 years’ imprisonment for translating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Special Rapporteur was recently informed that 10 monks from Drepung monastery were sentenced in this connection and that Buchung Ngawang, who is reportedly thought to have organized the campaign of dissemination of the Universal Declaration, was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment. Information concerning Muslims It has been reported that in November 1991, government officials in Xinjiang province had systematically interrogated 25,000 members of the Muslim clergy, 2,500 of whom were found not to fulfil the requisite political and religious criteria to exercise their profession which were established by the Government. A number of private Koranic schools were also closed at the time. The Special Rapporteur also received information that a number of well-known Uygur religious personalities were arrested and imprisoned between June 1990 and March 1992 in Eastern Turkestan. Information concerning Christians According to the information received, on 5 July 1991, the People’s Government of Daishan county, Zhejiang province, issued a ’Public Notice Concerning the Strengthening of Control of Christian Activities in the Whole Country’. The proposed aim of the notice was reportedly, inter alia, ’to restrict and crack down on all types of illegal religious activities, resolutely resist the infiltration of unfriendly outside religious forces, and to strengthen control of Christian activities in the whole country’. The notice also stipulates: ’With the exception of the country "Three Self" patriotic churches that have already registered and been approved, all other Christian meeting places that have not registered must implement registration

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