E/CN.4/1990/17 page 30 recommendation. As of 15 September 1989, Mr. Amin was said to be still in the Ayalon prison hospital in Raroleh prison complex. Mr. Amin, who was said to have suffered from a liver disease, was recovering from hepatitis at the time of his arrest. 94. On 16 November 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Israel transmitting information alleging that Sha'wan Rateb Abdullah Jabarin, aged 29, was arrested on 10 October 1989 in his home in Sa'ir, Hebron district, by security forces and taken to the "Khashabiya" police detention centre in Hebron. There he was allegedly severely beaten on the afternoon of 11 October 1989 by members of the security forces until he lost consciousness. According to eyewitnesses an army doctor tried to intervene and examine him, but soldiers continued to beat him as he was lying on the ground being examined by the doctor. On the doctor's recommendation, Sha'wan Jabarin was transferred to the Hadassa hospital in Ein-Karem, Jerusalem, where he received oxygen and treatment for a severe bruise on the forehead. It was alleged that for five days following his hospitalization he was unable to move unaided. It was further alleged that 16 days after the beatings Sha'wan Jabarin had swellings above both his eyes, and that cigarette burns were still visible on his body. Sha'wan Jabarin has reportedly been in poor health since his release in December 1933 from nine months' administrative detention. He was said to have a heart condition and back problems, for which he was receiving physiotherapy. He was at present reportedly serving a one-year administrative detention term at the Ketziot detention centre. Italy 95. On 2 October 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Italian Government transmitting information that a number of cases of ill-treatment inflicted on detainees had been reported in 1988. In most cases, the treatment was reportedly inflicted during the questioning and the persons responsible are policemen, carabinieri or members of the Revenue Guard (Guardia di Finanza). The following cases were reported: (a) Medical staff at the San Vittore prison in Milan reportedly sent a dossier to the office of the Milan Public Prosecutor at the beginning of April 1988 about an "alarming increase" in the preceding months in the number of prisoners arriving at the prison with injuries requiring medical treatment. According to the report, the injuries suffered by the prisoners under arrest were in all likelihood the result of ill-treatment. According to the persons concerned they had been beaten up or kicked after being arrested by the police, the carabinieri or members of the Revenue Guard. The Public Prosecutor is said to have started an inquiry in April 1988, but the findings are unknown; (b) Kader Fall, a street vendor and 24-year-old immigrant from Cote d'lvoire, was arrested by police officers at Civitanova on 16 April 1988, his goods were confiscated and he was released. Later, he returned to the police station to try and get his goods back. That evening, he was admitted to hospital, unconscious and with many contusions on his face and body. According to Kader Fall, when he returned to the police station he was beaten and kicked and punched. The police denied these allegations. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the case was being examined by the judicial authorities in January 1989. The findings are not known;