E/CN.4/1992/52 page 7 must be forbidden.' It is also said to indicate that 'Religious professionals are responsible for liaising with the religious masses to manage religious affairs and keep them in order, and to preserve monasteries, especially those monasteries which have been listed as important cultural units.' It reportedly prescribes that 'We must bear in mind the reality of the masses of people in our prefecture. They have just been living a reasonably well-off life, and therefore we must advise them on not to donate too much money to religion, and not to start big constructions, in order to avoid waste of manpower, e t c ' The report allegedly states further that 'It should be pointed out specially that the regulation on forbidding young people under 18 years of age to be religious was not seriously carried out in some areas. It is not allowed and (is) a violation of the policy to seduce young people into religion by taking advantage of their inexperience and inability to tell right from wrong.' The report is said to conclude by indicating that 'It is obvious, therefore, that it is a long-term, not-ending-until-the-naturalextinction-of-religion enduring work to continue to propagate the religious policy to the masses, especially the religious people, to raise their level of self-consciousness.' It has been reported that the Monlam (Great Prayer) Festival has been banned for the third consecutive year and that the streets in the Barkor area of Lhasa which are used for circumambulation of the Jokhang Temple were dug up during this period. It has also been reported that on this occasion a 24-hour curfew had been placed on monasteries near Lhasa from 1 to 11 March 1991 and that units of the People's Armed Police (Wu Jing) of up to 100 men sealed off the monasteries, thus preventing about 900 monks from leaving the monasteries of Drepung, Ganden and Sera. It has been alleged that a monk had been shot and wounded in the abdomen by the armed police on 1 March 1991. It has further been reported that monks who were expelled from monasteries, imprisoned and subsequently released and confined to their areas of origin are obliged to report to the local police authorities every seven days. They allegedly cannot leave the area without official permission and in the event that it is granted must return within seven days. These restrictions are said to be imposed for indefinite periods. If allowed once again to join a monastery, the monks are confined to the monastery area and required to report to the police every seven days. The reporting sessions are said to last an hour and include requests for information about other monks in the monastery. Monks are reportedly also restricted with regard to which monastery they may receive education from. Pilgrims visiting these monasteries are reportedly searched and special approval by the authorities is said to be required for the performance of religious ceremonies and rituals which are said to be limited mainly to outward manifestations such as circumambulation and prostration. It has been reported that the authorities have decreed that only 'normal' religious practices are allowed and only within specified buildings. All administrative decisions are said to be made by local officials, thus depriving the monastic officials of all authority. It has further been alleged that in February and May 1991 all monks and nuns in the principal religious institutions of Lhasa were confined by the authorities to their quarters for periods of up to two weeks and that permanent