A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 At this time, a drunken soldier used to come in the cell with a pistol and put it at the detainees' heads saying “We are going to kill you”. Since his conviction he had been detained in solitary confinement in a single cell, and he was forced to wear leg irons the whole day which had been taken off shortly before the Special Rapporteur arrived. The solitary confinement was not based on a court judgment. He was never allowed to go out of the cell and was not allowed to exercise in his cell. He was only able to communicate with other prisoners by shouting to other cells. He reported electricity cuts and said that the food provided (generally milk and bread and rice and chicken) lacked vitamins which, combined with the lack of fresh air and exercise, seriously affected his health since he had spent more than four years in detention. He had been receiving visits once every four months. He was suffering a lot from the almost non-existing contact with his family. Their letters did not arrive at all or were delayed for up to one year. His wife used to come to Equatorial Guinea once in a while, but she was allowed to visit her husband for one hour only, and sometimes the permission to visit was only given on the day of her departure. He reported that the Prosecutor or the President himself authorized the visits. The medical treatment was very poor, and no medicine was provided, although a doctor paid visits to the detainees every two or three weeks. He reported that he had had malaria and received treatment. Lieutenant Colonel Cipriano Nguema Mba Mitoho, aged 43, had been arrested on 8 October 2008 in Cameroon, where he had been living as a refugee (he had been accused in 2003 of plotting against the government and was tried in absentia to 30 years in prison after his flight to Cameroon), allegedly for smuggling weapons, by a Cameroonian Gendarme, Lucien Mba and other persons vested in civil cloths. He was handed over to soldiers of the Equatoguinean Presidential Guard who took him to Malabo. At Black Beach Prison he was detained incommunicado in solitary confinement with his hands permanently handcuffed and his legs permanently chained. Both had been removed shortly before the Special Rapporteur arrived. He reported that he received special food which was sent by the President. The Minister of National Security reportedly visited him. Four of his relatives had reportedly died in prison (three in Bata Prison and one in Black Beach). Other relatives were also detained at Black Beach Prison on the ground floor of the left building. He did not report any ill-treatment. Female detainee had been detained for two months at Black Beach Prison. After her arrest she was taken to Malabo Central Police Station where she was detained –permanently handcuffed - for two days. At Black Beach Prison she was detained together with men. She reported that the food was of low quality and she was suffering from very serious acne and would have to pay for the treatment, but had no money. Male detainee had been detained for eight months at Black Beach Prison. Before, he had been held in police custody at a gendarmerie post for four days. During the interrogation there he was forced to undress and was beaten with police truncheons by three gendarmes on his buttocks for one hour in order to extract a confession. He had no lawyer and was not in contact with his family since visits were prohibited. Male detainee was arrested in mid-2008 and taken to the Central Police Station in Malabo where he was beaten by two police officers with police truncheons on this head and his body from 4 – 6 p.m., for two subsequent days. The torture took place in the offices of the Judicial Police. Afterwards he was presented to a judge; however he was not allowed to speak and was eventually transferred to Black Beach Prison. He reported that in Black Beach Prison minors and young adults were abused by other detainees and were forced to provide other services to older detainees, such as washing cloths and dishes or cleaning the cells. Furthermore, the prison management had prohibited the minors to play games. Visits were also prohibited. Male detainee had been detained for five months at Black Beach Prison. Prior to this he had spent two weeks in police custody at the Central Police Station in Malabo. He reported 29