E/CN.4/1998/6 page 17 (c) In Georgia and Singapore, Jehovah's Witnesses literature has allegedly been confiscated. In Mongolia and Uzbekistan, the authorities are said to have confiscated bibles. In Nepal, Christian religious material has apparently been destroyed by Hindus. In Singapore, Jehovah's witnesses have reportedly been convicted for possession of their literature, which is banned. 65. The sixth category concerns violations of physical integrity and health, and even the right to life. 66. There have been many reports of harassment and threats (Azerbaijan, Romania, Uzbekistan); mistreatment (Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Iran, Pakistan, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan); arrests and detentions (Angola, Bulgaria, China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam), and even disappearances (China, Russian Federation, Uzbekistan) and murders (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan). In the case of China in particular, besides the urgent appeal, communications have been sent concerning the situation of Ghedün Nylmo, an eight-year-old boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, and concerning allegations of prison sentences for “conspiring to split the country” and “leaking State secrets” imposed on Chadrel Rimpoche (a Tibetan monk), his assistant Champa Chung and another Tibetan named Samdrup, who allegedly communicated with the Dalai Lama during the search for the child reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. In the case of Iraq, there have been allegations that security forces attacked Shi'ite pilgrims in Karbala', and that two Assyro-Chaldean Christians, suspected without proof of murdering a Muslim who had abducted their daughter or sister and forced her to marry him and convert to Islam, were murdered. The two Christians were reportedly detained, and later taken from their prison and tortured to death by 200 people following a fatwa issued by an imman calling for such action. In the case of Viet Nam, communications have been sent concerning the bonzes Thich Tri Tuu, Thich Mai Chanh and Thich Hai Thinh, who are said to be under house arrest, and the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Ban, who is reportedly being held in solitary confinement in a re-education camp. 67. In the context of the analysis of communications, the Special Rapporteur wishes to draw attention to the two urgent appeals addressed to China and the United Arab Emirates in the course of the period covered by the present report. The urgent appeal to China constituted a reminder about information concerning the detention of Yulo Dawa Tsering, a Tibetan monk, whom the Special Rapporteur interviewed during his visit to China in 1995 (E/CN.4/1995/91, para. 115). The Chinese Government replied that that monk had been conditionally released for good conduct on 6 November 1994, after having been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for having taken part in uprisings. It added that Yulo Dawa Tsering had enjoyed all the civil rights set forth in the Chinese Constitution since the end of the period of conditional release on 15 December 1995. 68. The urgent appeal to the United Arab Emirates was also a reminder concerning the case of Mr. Elie Dib Ghalib, a Christian who had been arrested and reportedly maltreated because of his marriage to a Muslim woman. On 29 October 1996, a court annulled the marriage and sentenced Mr. Ghalib to 39 lashes and a year's imprisonment for immoral marital relations. The United Arab Emirates replied that the trial had been conducted in accordance