E/CN.4/1990/17 page 40 Romania 128. On 18 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Romanian Government transmitting information on the following cases brought to his attention; (a) Mrs. Doina Cornea, lecturer at the University of Cluj was reportedly severely beaten after being arrested by the police in October 1988. Mrs. Cornea was allegedly savagely beaten again and kicked by security agents in front of her house in Cluj, on 18 May 1989. Mrs. Cornea was then examined by a doctor, who found 17 haematomas and other injuries, and possibly a fractured rib; (b) Mr. Nestor Popescu is said to have been kept at the Poiana-Mare psychiatric hospital, in the Department of Dolj, since 2 November 1989. Mr. Popescu was forced to undergo treatment with neuraleptic medicaments administered in strong doses. According to the information received, Mr. Popescu was declared healthy by a medical commission, but a court in Craiova none the less decided on 15 July 1988 that he should be kept in the hospital. 129. On 2 October 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Romanian Government transmitting information that some people reportedly received ill-treatment while in detention, after being apprehended when they were trying to cross the Hungarian or the Yugoslav border illegally. The following cases were reported: (a) Adrian Staicu and Emilia Popescu, both aged 34, from Bucharest, were arrested by the Romanian authorities on 15 May 1988 after slipping into Hungary illegally on 7 May 1988. Both of them were badly beaten up in prison in Oradea before being tried; (b) Vasilica Buta a 26-year-old architect from Bucharest, slipped into Hungary illegally on 21 June 1988 and returned to Romania on the same day. She was badly beaten up by a Romanian frontier guard before being taken to the Oradea prison; (c) Ionel Radu, from Timisoara, was apprehended while he was trying to cross the Yugoslav border illegally. Frontier guards arrested him and beat him up and set a dog on him, causing serious injuries to the face. Saudi Arabia 130. On 10 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Saudi Arabia concerning information alleging that nine people detained in the Mabahith Al-Ama prison in Al-Dammam were being subjected to torture and ill-treatment. Their names, and details about the date and place of arrest, were reported as follows: Malik Maki Al-Khuwaldi, aged 23, arrested on 15 June 1989 in Safwa in the eastern province; Sayyid Tahir Al-Shimimy, aged 30; Sheikh Ali Abdul Karim Al-Awa, aged 28; Sayyid Zaki Sayyid Shuber, aged 26; and Jafar Baqer Al-Nimr, aged 30; all four arrested on 15 June 1989 in Al-Awamiyya, in the eastern province; Abd Al-Aziz Al-Farisi, aged 23, arrested on 17 June 1989 at King Saud University in Riyadh; Malik Al-Ziwari, arrested during the first half of June 1989 in Sanabis; Adam Ali Al-Uqaili, aged 20, arrested on 14 June 1989 at Hudaitha check-point on the