A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 April 2005, he had been held in Evinayong Prison. He reported that he was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for murder. In none of the detention places, he was ever subjected to torture or ill-treatment. He informed the Special Rapporteur that since the present Director of the Prison Evinayong took office at the end of September 2008, the prison conditions improved significantly. The Director was friendly with the detainees and treated them properly. The detainees received once per month sufficient food ingredients for the whole month, and they could themselves prepare the food in the kitchen. In the cell, he had light and a radio. Between 6.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. he could (voluntarily) work outside the prison by cutting plants with a machete and could earn some money. Prisoners were allowed to receive visitors, but he had nobody to visit him. As long as the Red Cross visited the prison, detainees were provided with games (cards etc.), but since these visits ceased, they had no longer any games. Male detainee had been in detention for about eight years. After his arrest, he was first held in custody at a gendarmerie post in Bata. On the first day, at midnight, he was brought in the “torture room” where he was ordered to stand on a chair completely naked. His arms were attached to a bar with cords; then the chair was removed so that he was hanging in the air. The gendarmerie left him suspended in this position for 30 minutes, and for 10 minutes he was beaten with a police truncheon on the soles of his feet. The police officer only stopped when he was defecating and sweating very strongly due to the pain. He could not walk anymore and was carried back to the cell. One day later, at 1 am, he was taken out of the cell, stripped naked and his elbows and feet were both tied together with cords behind his back; a bar was glided under the cords and fixed between two chairs. In this position he was suspended for 10 minutes in order to extract payment of a large sum and a confession. As a result of the torture he was unable to walk for two months. At the time of the Special Rapporteur´s visit, more than seven years later, he still felt strong pain in the feet, especially on the soles and he had difficulties to wear shoes and to walk distances of more than 100 meters. According to the examination by the forensic expert of the team of the Special Rapporteur, parts of the tissue on the soles of his feet had been permanently destroyed. Furthermore, the detainee could not move his arms and hands for one year after the torture so that he was dependent on help of co-detainees in order to eat and to do his basic needs etc. He reported that his hands sometimes still felt “cold” or “dead” and he had to move them in order to get rid of the numbness. His arms and hands were weaker than before the torture and he had difficulties when carrying out manual work. After one and a half months in custody at the gendarmerie post, he was transferred to Bata Prison, where he stayed about two and a half years before being transferred to Evinayong Prison. He reported that he had no complaints regarding the treatment in Bata Prison. His brother, his wife and his two children used to visit him in Bata. He did not know why he was transferred to Evinayong Prison since he had no family members living in this region. His brother died and he was not allowed to attend the funeral in Bata. Regarding the treatment in Evinayong Prison he reported that the money from the authorities for the food of the detainees did not reach Evinayong so that the prisoners were short of food and depending on external help. However, the new Director of the prison gave detainees money (out of his own pocket) for food. He reported that the ill-treatment including corporal punishment had stopped since the arrival of the new Prison Director. Male detainee had been arrested in September 2008 by the gendarmerie. He was detained for approximately one month in a small room used as a cell, which had no bed or mattress. In November 2008 he was brought before a judge, who ordered his immediate transfer to Evinayong Prison to await trial. However, his transfer to the prison was delayed because he was doing construction work for an official, which the latter wanted him to finish before his transfer. Since his arrival at Evinayong Prison, he had not seen or spoken to a judge. According to him, the prison authorities provided the prisoners with adequate food and cooking oil to cook their own meals in the prison kitchen. The only complaints he had were 40