A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 46 Para 29. Country Date 19/12/05 Type JAL Mandate Migrants; TOR; TRAF; VAW; Allegations transmitted Government Response Gyaltsen, a disciplinarian at Sera Monastery. In July 2005, the authorities expelled Changchup Gyaltsen from Sera Monastery after he read out a request for prayer, which referred to the Dalai Lama. He was placed under surveillance for a year. Tsering Dhondup, who is alleged to have drafted the prayer, disappeared on the same day. He is thought to be held incommunicado at Gutsa prison in northern Lhasa. He is alleged to have possessed and distributed documents criticizing China and supporting Tibetan independence. expelled from the Sera monastery for engaging in activities calling for the division of Chinese territory and has currently returned to his place of origin.On 26 August, Tsering Dhondup was detained by the Tibetan Public Security authorities for preparing propaganda materials calling for “Tibetan independence”. On 25 October, proceedings were instituted against him, in accordance with the law, by the Lhasa people’s procurator’s office on suspicion of the offence of fomenting division of the State. In the course of dealing with the above case, the Chinese judicial authorities acted in strict accordance with laws and regulations under the Chinese Criminal Code, the Chinese Code of Criminal Procedure and other instruments, and there was no question here of any “arbitrary detention” or “torture”. By letter dated 14/06/06, the Government reported that the allegation that 50,000 illegal immigrants from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have been detained in Jilin in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, which is a wild exaggeration. As a consequence of the improved economic situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the strengthened controls exercised over the frontier region by China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the number of Korean illegal immigrants entering China is steadily decreasing. In accordance with the law, the Chinese Government guarantees the lawful rights and Trafficking and sexual exploitation of female citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), especially in Jilin Province. There are at least 50,000 DPRK citizens who only have irregular visa status in the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian (Jilin Province), which borders the DPRK and is home to about one million Chinese citizens of Korean ethnicity. While a considerable number clandestinely crossed the international border into the PRC to escape persecution many others fled the poor socioeconomic situation. About half of those who cross the border are women. After arriving in the PRC, many are trafficked and forced to marry or