A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 visit. The person was detained on the first floor in a room of about 2,5 sqm which was used as a cell. The gendarmerie had a very well kept register, which, according to the Chief of the Gendarmerie was provided as part of gendarmerie training by the French authorities. In addition to the register, the gendarmerie used a complaint register to record any complaints made. The hygienic conditions in the room used as cell were very poor. The detainee, who had been arrested some weeks earlier, had not been allowed to leave the cell to go to the toilet, but had to urinate into plastic bottles and defecate into plastic bags. To sleep, he had to lie on the floor on a dirty mattress. The windows were barred with wooden planks, but some light came in, where the planks were broken. The Special Rapporteur was told by the gendarmerie that the detainee was allowed to leave the cell to go to the toilet. With respect to the physical conditions of the place, in particular the room used to detain people, the officials said they felt the place was not appropriate and explained that a new building was under construction. Police Station Evinayong Visited on 15 November 2008 The police station was small with a stone tower next to it used as holding cell. The tower was dark with one very small window. Apart from one wooden stool, it was empty. No register was kept. Male detainee, foreigner, had been arrested a few hours earlier because he had no papers. He had been treated correctly, but not received any water. Evinayong Prison Visited on 15 November 2008 General information: Evinayong Prison had been completely refurbished. Only six prisoners were detained in the prison at the time of the Special Rapporteur’s visit. Most of them were sentenced to long term imprisonment because of murder. The prison consisted of six small single cells, a larger multi-occupancy cell as well as one big dormitory with about 30 bunk beds. Three persons were accommodated in the dormitory. The dormitory was reportedly locked at night and the windows permanently closed with iron shutters. Since there was no electric light, the prisoners reportedly had to spend the whole evening and night in complete darkness. The other multi-occupancy cell (2 or 3 bunk beds) was occupied by one person. The prison also disposed of high standard sanitary facilities and a large clean kitchen in which prisoners cooked their own food. During the day, prisoners could freely move around inside the large courtyard, but the cells were locked between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. One person with a mental disability was detained at the prison. It was reported that corporal punishment had ceased since the new prison director took office in September 2008. However, about one year earlier, a prisoner, Salvador Ndong Nguema, had been so heavily beaten by two soldiers (Cabo Primero Diosdado and “Florencio”), had not received any medical treatment and only been taken to the hospital in Bata when a member of his family came to see him in Evinayong; he later died in Bata Hospital. At that time, all detainees had been held at the gendarmerie premises of the gendarmerie because the prison was being renovated. All prisoners watched when the two soldiers kicked Salvador Ndong Nguema with their boots and were beating him with rubber truncheons. Male detainee had been arrested in early 2001, and spent one month in the Police Station of Ebebiyin before being transferred to Bata Prison where he was held for four years. Since 39