E/CN.A/1990/17 page 53 hospitals. His last admission to hospital, in March 1989, was due to a deterioration in his mental condition, manifested by an increase in psychotic disorders. He had since been discharged and sent home. The justified nature of the admission to hospital was confirmed by a check made by the Procurator's Office; (c) Sergei Kuznetsov had been under medical and psychiatric observation for mental illne66 for a long time. At the end of 1988, by decision of the investigating authorities (upon the institution of criminal proceedings), he was sent to the psychiatric hospital of the town of Sverdlovsk. After examination by forensic psychiatrists, he was found to be of sound mind and was transferred to the detention block for persons under investigation. In May 1989, again by decision of the investigating authorities, he was examined at the V.P. Serbsky All-Union Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry and was again found of Bound mind as regards incriminating activity (dissemination of slanderous fabrication). He was then returned to the detention block for persons under investigation. United Arab Emirates 166. On 3 August 1989 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of the United Arab Emirates concerning information alleging that Mahmud Sulaiman Abdi, a Somali national aged 14, who was being held without charge in Al Wathba prison, outside Abu Dhabi, since 23 December 1987, was subjected to ill-treatment, by receiving 200 cane strokes while in detention. Yemen 167. On 19 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Yemen transmitting information reporting that three men convicted of theft, named as Muhammad Ahmad al-Hariri, Muhammad Ahmad Abdul al-Washli and Abd al-Wasi Abdullah Salih aHMaqtari, each had their right hand amputated on 2k February 1989. The amputations were reportedly carried out publicly in Maydan al-Tahrir in Sana'a. The three men had reportedly been convicted by courts of first instance. The convictions and sentences had been upheld by the Court of Appeal and the Court of Cassation and ratified by the Supreme Judicial Council. Yugoslavia 168. On 18 July 1989 the Special Rapporteur addressed a letter to the Government of Yugoslavia transmitting information alleging that several cases of torture and ill-treatment had occurred in Kosovo and Macedonia during the period March-May 1989. Those cases reportedly involved security forces, and in particular police activity, following the widespread demonstrations organized by various ethnic groups. The following cases were reported: (a) Following an appeal 6ent on 21 February 1989 to the authorities, 215 intellectuals were allegedly arrested and sent to the prison of Leskovc in Serbia. On the road to that prison, and in the prison itself, they were allegedly brutally beaten and subjected to various forms of torture, including planting of needles under the nail6, squeezing of genitals, beating on the soles of the feet and burning the feet with burning paper;