E/CN.4/1993/62 page 86 According to other allegations, Mr. Vasile Belea, a representative of the Uniate Church in the town of Spermezeu, Department of Bistritza-Näsäud, applied to the local Police Chief, Mr. Ioan Hrusan, on 20 October 1991, for permission to reopen a former church belonging to the Uniate community so that religious services might be celebrated in it once again. In reply to this request, the Police Chief, who happens to be the brother of the priest of the Orthodox Church in the same town, allegedly beat Mr. Belea up and threw him out of the police station. According to the information received, this is not an isolated incident. Some persons were allegedly incited by priests of the Orthodox Church to commit many attacks in the territory of Transylvania, always against members of the Uniate Church. One of these violent incidents reportedly took place in the village of Visuia, where Father Zagreanu was requested to celebrate mass in honour of St. Dimitri on 26 October 1991. He is said to have informed the local police that he intended to celebrate the mass at the Ariesan family farm in the same village so that the police would guarantee that the ceremony was held peacefully. When he was on his way to the farm, 12 persons who were drunk burst out of the Orthodox Church and beat him violently on the head and jaw and threw him back and forth until he fell on the ground. They went on kicking him in the stomach and kidneys. Women on their way to the mass were allegedly also attacked. In the village of Margäu, district of Cluj, Father Ioan Bota was allegedly attacked in his church when he was celebrating mass on 6 January 1992. He had to leave the church by the door behind the altar because his attackers were waiting for him in front of the main door. On 8 January 1992, the police in the village of Filea were allegedly requested to keep watch on Mrs. Silvia Tartan’s home, where Father Pius Miclaus was celebrating mass. A gang of attackers with shovels and pitchforks allegedly threatened him until after midnight and the woman guarding the door of the house was injured when the blade of a knife went through the door. The mayor of Ciurila, which Filea is part of, went to the house with the wife of the Orthodox priest and was allegedly threatened and prevented from taking any action. The Uniate chapel in Mrs. Eugenia Darjan’s house in the village of Iclod was allegedly desecrated on 12 January 1992 by four persons whom the owner recognized. Icons were taken, religious books were thrown on the floor and the table that was used as an altar was desecrated. A complaint was filed with the local police. The police force did not intervene in any of the above-mentioned cases." Saudi Arabia 51. In a communication sent on 18 September 1992 addressed to the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the following was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "According to the information received, members of the Shia Muslim community in Saudi Arabia are reportedly deprived of the right to express their religious beliefs in public and are subjected to frequent attacks by