d) Awasa Woreda Police Station The police station is located a few kilometers from the Awasa prison. There are about 30 detainees in a two room block. The rooms are very dirty and produced very bad odour. The detainees themselves are stinking as they have not bathed for several days. There is no where they can bath as there is no provision for a bathroom in the police stations. The toilet, a few meters from the cell, is very dirty and detainees are not allowed to go to the toilet at night. They are provided with a bucket where they urinate and empty the contents in the morning. The detainees are provided with neither blankets nor food, because according to the authorities, the government does not provide any budget for persons detained in police stations. There is no medical facility and there are reports of police brutality. 3. Oromia Region The Oromia Region covers the largest part of the country. The Region borders the Afar, Amhara and Benshangul/Gumuz regions to the north, Kenya to the South, the Somali Region to the East, the Republic of the Sudan and the Benishangul/gumuz Region to the West, the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region and the Gambella Region to the South. With a population of over 25 million and a land size of about 353,632 km², the Oromia Region is the largest region in Ethiopia both in terms of population and land area. The major ethnic groups within the Region included 85% Oromo, 9.1% Amhara and 1.3% Gurage. The remaining 4.6% constituted other ethnic groups. The religious composition of the population of the region indicated that 44.3% were Muslims, 41.3% Orthodox Christians, 8.6% Protestants, and 4.2% followers of traditional religions. The remaining 1.6% constituted other religious groups. In urban Oromia, Orthodox Christians constituted 67.8% of the population, followed by Muslims 24.0% and Protestants 7%. Oromifa (Oromigna) is the official language. It constituted 83.5% of the spoken language. Other major languages are Amharic 11%, Guragigna, 0.98%, Gedeogna 0.98% and Tigrigna 0.25%. The Region has a total of 33 prisons - 15 Zonal and 18 Woredas with an overall prison population of 22,616. The Special Rapporteur visited and inspected prisons in the East Shoa Zone. The East Shoa Zone has three prisons - Adama (Nazret) Prison, Dippo Prison and the Ziway Prisons with a total prison population of 2,199. The Special Rapporteur visited the Adama and Dippo prisons. 18 Report of the Mission of the Special Rapporteur on Prisons to Ethiopia 15 – 29 March 2004