A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 police cell was dark and dirty. A very dirty toilet was located not far from the cell. Both, the police and the gendarmerie did not have separate registers for detainees. Male detainee, foreigner, had been arrested the day before in the evening. He indicated that he had been slapped during the arrest. The officers claimed that he had resisted the arrest. The forensic expert accompanying the Special Rapporteur found no traces of violence. Since his arrest he had not been allowed to go to the toilet and had not received any food. Police Station - Rebola Visited on 13 November 2008 General information: The Special Rapporteur was received by Brigadier Manuel Esono. The police station disposed of one very dirty cell, which was empty. The door of the cell had allegedly been broken by the last detainee. The officer in charge explained that the cell was only used to keep persons while their cases were registered, following which they were transferred to the instruction judge. Persons to be held in custody were directly transferred to the police station in Baney. However, he did not know the location of the holding cells in Baney. The police kept a registry in which entries and exits of detainees supposedly were registered. However, the book was not properly kept and the officer in charge could neither tell the number of detainees during the preceding month nor the duration of their detention. Police Station (District) - Baney Visited on 13 November 2008 General information: The Special Rapporteur was received by Moises Mba Asún (Lieutenant). He informed the Special Rapporteur, that the police station did not have any detention facility. All arrested persons were directly transferred to Malabo. This statement contradicted the information the Special Rapporteur received in Rebola. The police kept a complaints register. Ela Nguema Police Station Visited on 13 November 2008 General information: The Special Rapporteur was received by several police officers. In the left wing of the building, a corridor led to several offices and one detention cell, which was empty on the day of the visit. No register was kept. When the Special Rapporteur arrived, two persons were tied to a bench to the right of the main desk, with their hands cuffed behind their backs. Both of them had allegedly been involved in a fight and were bleeding. When officers on duty realized that the delegation was coming to inspect the place, the two persons were hastily untied and pushed into an office, and the Special Rapporteur was first denied access to them. After some negotiations he was allowed to speak to both persons. Male detainee said he had been arrested about an hour earlier at the place of the fight together with Jose Antonio. He was handcuffed and taken to the police station. Male detainee had been arrested an hour earlier following a fight with another person. In the process, he was kicked, pushed and handcuffed. The arresting police officers accused him of being a killer. 32

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