A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 None of the detainees in the cells reported that he/she had been subjected to beatings or other ill-treatment since they had been put into the cell. However, the Special Rapporteur received several allegations of ill-treatment during arrest and interrogation: One detainee said he had been injured with a knife on his right cheek by a gendarmerie officer prior to this transfer to the police station. Another detainee said he had been injured with a paper stapler on his toe and finger during the first interrogation in the section of the Judicial Police. Another detainee said he had cables of a car battery attached to his toes by members of the Judicial Police, who threatened him with electro shocks if he refused to confess. Another detainee complained about pain in his thumb and forefinger as a result of the tight application of handcuffs. Another person said he was suffering from injuries on his neck, which he had obtained during his arrest. His head had been pushed down violently when he was pushed into the police car by the police officers who arrested him. The foreigners among the detainees had not been able to contact their consular representatives, although they had requested to do so. Many of the allegations were corroborated by medical evidence. In Black Beach Prison the Special Rapporteur received consistent allegations from prisoners who had been tortured during interrogation in the premises of the Judicial Police. When the Special Rapporteur visited, he found several torture devices in the front office situated to the left of the right entrance that had been described to him by the detainees. These devices included a car battery, a starter cable, several iron bars and a thick black cable. Male detainee, foreigner, had been arrested in October 2008 because he could not produce valid documents. He had paid a considerable sum of money to one of the police officers in charge at the police station, who had promised to release him, but was subsequently asked for more. He was afraid of reprisals for speaking with the Special Rapporteur. According to him, foreign detainees were frequently subject to violence by the Equatoguinean detainees, which was tacitly tolerated by the police officers. Female detainee, aged 24, foreigner with Equatoguinean mother. She grew up in Nigeria and came to Equatorial Guinea to see her mother. In Equatorial Guinea she requested an Equatoguinean passport and consequently planned to travel with this passport to Spain. She was arrested by two police officers at Malabo airport in early November 2008, who slapped her and took her to the Central Police Station, where she was detained in the wing for foreigners together with about 40 men and one other woman. She reported that at night some male detainees had tried to rape her and one Equatoguinean man in particular kept harassing her, but so far she could defend herself. She could see her boyfriend once through the barred window of the police station. Since her arrest, she had not received food from the police but another female detainee had given her some food. Male detainee, foreigner, arrived in Equatorial Guinea in early November 2008 and was arrested three days later. He was reportedly beaten and kicked by three police officers all over his body. His allegations were corroborated by medical evidence; as a consequence of the ill-treatment, he had a fractured right meta carpel bone between knuckles and writs and his hand was severely swollen. According to the forensic expert, this is a typical defensive injury which occurs when a person tries to protect his or her face from beatings and kicks. Male detainee, had been told he would be held for five days but had been detained for several months by the time of the Special Rapporteur's visit; he complained that there was almost no water and that detainees had to pay for drinking water; food was not provided and there was no protection against mosquitoes; for the first month he had been held in a cell within the building; he could see his girlfriend through the window. 23