E/CN.4/1992/52 page 83 obliged to deposit large sums of money and are not allowed to travel with their entire family. This emigration policy has reportedly been conducive to attempts to escape and it has been alleged that the persons who have been caught were imprisoned without charge or trial and were subjected to torture and ill-treatment. It has been reported that a special branch of the secret police has the exclusive task of monitoring the activities of the Jewish community. Identity cards of the members of the Jewish community are said to be marked in blue and contain the word Mousawi (Jew) while no such indications exist on the identity cards of members of the Syrian Muslim and Christian communities. According to the sources, members of the Jewish community do not have the right to vote and cannot be candidates in any election. They are also said to be barred from employment by the Government. Their right to inherit or dispose of personal and real estate property is allegedly severely restricted. In addition, the mail they receive from abroad is said to be censored and their telephone calls monitored. The Special Rapporteur has already referred to the problem of emigration of members of the Syrian Jewish community in his report to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-sixth session (E/CN.4/1990/46)." Thailand 69. In a communication sent on 1 November 1991 addressed to the Government of Thailand, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "Situation of the Hooppha Sawan Religious Land According to the information received, the religious and lay residents of the Hooppha Sawan Religious Land, reportedly a centre for Buddhist and interreligious activities containing symbolic structures of all the major religions of the world, were threatened and forcibly evicted from this property and all their belongings were confiscated on 29 March 1991 on the orders of the Governor of Ratchaburi province and officials of the Religious Affairs Department. It has been reported that the headquarters of the International Federation of Religions is located at the Hooppha Sawan Religious Land and that both are under the patronage of the Jinnabuddho Memorial Foundation which had been granted permission in June 1973 by the Fine Arts Department to use the Tham Phra Archaeological Site in Рак Tho District, Ratchaburi province, to establish the Hooppha Sawan Meditation Centre on that location. It has been further reported that the Supreme Court had revoked the licence for the operation of the International Federation of Religions and the Jinnabuddho Memorial Foundation in July 1989 and ordered the cancellation of their registration and cessation of all their operations in December 1981, ruling that all their property become State property. Nevertheless, Dr. Suchart Kosolkitiwong, Chairman of the Jinnabuddho Memorial Foundation and President of the International Federation of Religions, and the Buddhist monks, novices, nuns and laymen were authorized by the Governor of Ratchaburi province and the District Officer of Рак Tho to remain on Hooppha Sawan Religious Land, look after the property and continué with their religious activities while the process of auditing the Foundation's property was taking place.

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