E/CN.4/2001/66 page 169 Romania 858. The Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information concerning officers of the Buzau County Police Inspectorate’s emergency intervention subunit (subunitatea de intervençie rapida a Inspectoratului de Poliçie al JudeÛului Buzau). Emergency intervention subunits were said to have been established within all county police inspectorates in the last few months of 1999 on the basis of a General Police Inspectorate order of 26 October 1999. It is reported that the officer appointed to command the subunit was previously disciplined for having committed acts of ill-treatment. 859. In particular, the Special Rapporteur transmitted information on the following individual cases. 860. Constantin Vrabie was reportedly arrested in a Buzau discotheque on 8 January 2000 by three men in plain clothes, led to a van and allegedly thrown to the floor and beaten. One of Constantin Vrabie’s friends, Valentin Barbu, was also allegedly taken to the van and beaten. Reportedly, there were eight police officers in the van, five of them in plain clothes. Constantin Vrabie and Valentin Barbu were allegedly beaten all the way to the Buzau police station, where they were allegedly subjected to intermittent blows to the head by police officers. A medical certificate issued by the Buzau Forensic Laboratory on 10 January 2000 is said to have noted: “massive eye bruise with central open wound and contusion; massive bruises on the lower lip and in the occipital area; massive headache …; needs 12-14 days of treatment under medical care following the incident, lest other complications arise”. Constantin Vrabie is reported to have filed a complaint with the Military Prosecutor’s Office. 861. Silviu Roşioru made a flippant comment within earshot of police officers on 25 January 2000 in a pub. The officers allegedly threw him to the floor, handcuffed him, and kicked and beat him severely with their batons. He was allegedly beaten throughout the journey to the Buzau police station, where a police report was drawn up. On 26 January 2000, police officers reportedly took Silviu Roşioru out of the police station and left him in the street, although it was reported to be obvious that he could not walk by himself because of his injuries. Eventually, the police officers are said to have called a taxi-cab that took him directly to the surgical department of the Buzau county hospital, where he was admitted and diagnosed with “chest and abdominal injuries, extensive bruising on the left thigh and buttock, head and face injuries and contusions on both hands”. He was then transferred to the Emergency Hospital, where he was treated until 1 February 2000. His wife reportedly lodged complaints with the Buzau Military Prosecutor’s Office and with the Prosecutor’s Office at the Supreme Court of Justice. Carmen Rotaru, who accompanied Silviu Roşioru to the pub on 25 January and who reportedly witnessed the whole event, was subsequently allegedly subjected to pressure and intimidation by police officers. Urgent appeals and replies received 862. Le 18 juillet 2000, le Rapporteur spécial a envoyé un appel urgent en faveur de Arpad Tokes, qui serait en train de purger une peine d’emprisonnement de cinq ans à la prison de Miercurea Ciuc. Il souffrirait d’anémie mégaloblastique, d’asthme et d’un ulcère à l’estomac et aurait subi une opération chirurgicale ayant eu pour effet l’ablation de deux tiers de son