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article 73, paragraph A, of 'particularly serious breaches of national
security', and found guilty of 'subversive activity against the people's
administration' .
It is maintained that, at the beginning of 1989, Thich Due Nhuan was
transferred from Ho Chi Minh City to the Z30A re-education camp, in Xuan Loc
district, Dong Nai province. He is said to be suffering from asthma and
from a stomach ulcer which is bleeding, and his health is reported to have
deteriorated in recent months. Medical resources are reported to be
rudimentary in the re-education camps, and there are no competent doctors
to attend to detainees.
According to another communication received by the Special Rapporteur,
Thich Tue Sy, a 46-year-old Buddhist monk, arrested in December 1984 and
sentenced to death, the sentence subsequently being commuted to 20 years'
imprisonment, was recently transferred from the Z30A re-education camp to a
camp at Xuan Phuoc in Tuy Hoa district, Phu Khanh province. Thich Tue Sy is
reported to be suffering from acute malnutrition and to be in danger of
falling seriously ill if he is unable to"receive regular food parcels.
It has also been reported that Dominican Father Tran Dinh Thu, 83 years
of age, and his assistant, Brother Paul Nguyen Chau Dat, members of the
Congregation of the Mother Co-redeemer, were arrested on 16 May 1987 and
sentenced to life imprisonment in October the same year, after being found
guilty of 'propaganda against the socialist regime ... and terrorism1. Both
priests were reportedly imprisoned in Chi Hoa prison in Ho Chi Minh City.
Tran Dinh Thu's sentence was allegedly commuted to 20 years' imprisonment in
September 1988, and it is possible that he was transferred to a re-education
camp in Dong Nai province, 80 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City.
Lastly, Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a Roman Catholic priest, is said to
have been arrested in May 1983 when he was attempting to organize
an unauthorized pilgrimage. In December 1983, he was apparently sentenced
to 10 years' imprisonment, a sentence he is reported to be serving in
Binh Tri Thien province."
III.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
87. For the fifth consecutive year, the Special Rapporteur has been entrusted
by the Commission on Human Rights with the examination of situations reported
to be inconsistent with the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination
of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion and
Belief, the identification factors hampering its implementation and the search
for clarifications on specific incidents or cases from the Governments
concerned. Over the years, he has established a constructive dialogue with
Governments in a spirit of co-operation.
88. The Special Rapporteur was particularly gratified with the confidence
placed in him by the Commission on Human Rights which, at its forty-sixth
session, in 1990, extended his mandate for another two years. This extension,
the privilege of which the Special Rapporteur shares with other thematic
mandates of the Commission on Human Rights, seems to reflect a sustained
interest and trust on the part of the States members of the Commission in the
established procedures for the consideration of certain types of violations,
and a concern to ensure that the Rapporteurs have optimum conditions for the
fulfilment of their task.