A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 34 Para 17. Country Bhutan Date 12/07/06 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; FRDX; RINT; TOR; Allegations transmitted Government Response Two Christians, John Tamang (alias Purna Bahadur Tamang) and Benjamin Sharma (alias Budhu Mani Dhungana) in the town of Paro. On 7 January 2006, they were arrested for screening the film ‘Jesus’ in the town of Paro. The arrest was carried out by an officer of the Crime and Investigation Department in Thimphu, who punched and hit the two men during the arrest. They are thought to be being held incommunicado in Thimphu and have been subjected to torture immediately isolated in the facility’s medical centre and transferred to the national tuberculosis hospital. Only persons cured of tuberculosis and under regular medical supervision may be held together with healthy detainees. The accessibility of medical assistance for detainees is at the same level as for the country’s population as a whole. The patient-doctor ratio for detainees is 53.1 per 10,000 (compared to 46.2 per 10,000 for the country as a whole), the ratio of paramedical and nursing staff is 98.1 per 10,000 detainees (compared to 119.7 per 10,000 for the country as a whole) and the hospital bed rate is 439.4 per 10,000 (compared to 107.4 per 10,000 for the country as a whole). Clothing allowances for detainees are set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and nutritional standards by the Council of Ministers. At the current time, work is under way by the State authorities on the approval of a draft government decision to raise the nutritional standards. By letter dated 27/07/06, the Government reported that they were handed over to the Royal Bhutan Police on 8 January 2006 by villagers. They were produced before the District Court in Paro on 9 January 2006. In accordance with the due process of law, they were charged in the District Court and found guilty of several offences. Mr Dhungana and Mr Tamang have thus been tried and sentenced as per the law, in an open trial with