E/CN.4/1990/46 page 8 Burundi should be limited and that Jehovah's Witnesses who were arrested should be severely punished. Since then, two Jehovah's Witnesses performing pastoral functions are said to have been arrested and one of them severely beaten in order to obtain the names and addresses of the other members of the congregation. They are alleged to be being held at the security forces' police station in Gitega. "According to the same reports, the authorities are looking for an itinerant pastor who visits the country's congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses in order to arrest him. In the meantime they are said to have arrested his wife, Charlotte Nijimbere, and to be holding her until her husband gives himself up." 32. In a communication dated 8 November 1989, the following information was transmitted: "According to information received, in March 1989 the Governor of the Province of Muramvya incited the local population to attack Jehovah's Witnesses. On 16 March 1989, they burst into the houses of certain known Jehovah's Witnesses and beat both men and women for refusing to chant party slogans. The next day, four women members of the congregation were beaten for having refused to renounce their faith. In addition, Pierre Kibina—Kanwa, headmaster of Nyabihanga primary school, is alleged to have expelled pupils who were Jehovah's Witnesses and whom he wanted to force to salute the national flag. "According to the same reports, two Jehovah's Witnesses in Bubanza Province were arrested for possessing bibles. In addition, when they refused to give the party salute, Governor Kimbusa Balthazar, sent them to a military camp, where they were tortured." Canada 33. In a communication of 22 March 1989 addressed to the Government concerned, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "It has been reported that the Stein Valley in British Columbia, which the Nlaka'pamux and Lilloet Indian peoples associate with special spiritual ritualss has been targeted by the Government of the province of British Columbia for the purposes of logging and9 in particulars the construction of a logging road. It has been alleged that the construction of this road and the logging would result in an irrevocable alteration of the valley's deep spiritual significance to the Nlaka'parnux and Lilloet Indians and in the desecration of significant pictographic sites." 34. On 20 September 19893 the Permanent Mission of Canada communicated the reply of the Canadian authorities to the Special Rapporteur's letter of 22 March 1989. The reply stated that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteed freedom of conscience and religion to everyone and provided for judiciary remedies when such freedoms had been infringed. The reply also stated that; "Prior to outlining the Stein Valley situation, some background information is required. Canada is a federal State made up of