E/CN.4/1990/46 page 13 "In past years he was prosecuted several times for these acts. However, the prosecution was halted on each occasion, when he was found not to be legally responsible for his actions. Several times he was required to undergo treatment for his own protection. "Mr. Augustin Navratil represents all psychiatric examinations and treatment as an abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. "The last time he was prosecuted was in 1988 for the offence of grossly insulting an organ of the State and an organ of a social organization, under article 154, paragraph 2, of the Penal Code. "In the course of these proceedings an examination was once again made of Augustin Navratil's mental state. The experts came to the conclusion that he had been and was still suffering from a mental illness known as querulous paranoia. He has been suffering from this illness for many years. It has been diagnosed and certified on various occasions by specialists. "On the basis of the experts' conclusions, criminal proceedings were halted and the Kromeriz district court decided that he should undergo protective psychiatric treatment in a hospital establishment. "This treatment lasted from September 1988 to 9 February 1989, when Navratil was discharged from the psychiatric establishment and his protective treatment was ended in favour of outpatient treatment. "Mr. Augustin Navratil is not being persecuted for his religious convictions. A citizen who has several times been found during criminal proceedings to be suffering from a serious mental illness has been the subject of a legal procedure." Egypt 40. In a communication of 13 October 1989 addressed to the Government concerned, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "It has been reported that the police commissioner of the city of Dair Moiss in Upper Egypt seized the residence of the newly ordained Coptic Bishop Aghabious and prevented him from occupying it and fulfilling his religious duties. The residence was seized after it had been attacked and ransacked by Muslim 'fundamentalists', who allegedly counted on the police commissioner's approval. "It has also been alleged that in the same city Sheikh Omar Akdel-Aziz seized a plot of land owned by the Coptic Evangelical Church with the encouragement of Egyptian officials. "Reports also indicate that the police has closed down the church of St. Mina in the Al-Agouza district in the city of Cairo and the new churches in Sohag, Girga, the cemetery of Manfalout, and in the village of Ezbat-Alexan. Allegedly there are more than 200 Coptic communities which have been denied presidential permit to build new churches."