A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 Male detainee, was arrested in early 2008, when he reported to the police. He was taken to the “interpol cell”, where the General Director of Security was present. The police incorrectly recorded his statement. When he protested, his hands were tied behind his back with a metal cable with tissue underneath. The police put him on a metal bar fixed between two chairs with his face down. They put a candle in front of his face so that he had to breathe the smoke, which made him dizzy (the dizziness lasted for two weeks). In addition, eight persons were beating him with a high voltage cable. On the following two days he could not move his legs and arms, and others had to help him to go to the toilet and to eat and drink. His whole body was in pain. He could also not walk for a while. During the trial, when he raised the allegations of torture, he was interrupted. He was then sentenced to six years of imprisonment. He had not seen his family since his transfer to Black Beach Prison in the first half 2008. He was not allowed to send or receive letters. Male detainee, arrested in Bata in late 2005 by the Minister of Territorial Administration. Immediately after his arrest he was taken to a private house outside Bata, where he was blindfolded, and his elbows and ankles were tied with ropes. The officers then suspended him between two beds for about one hour. He was then taken to the main police station for four or five days and subsequently to the gendarmerie, where he stayed for four or five days. Then he was detained in Bata Prison for four months and was transferred to Black Beach Prison afterwards. As a consequence of the torture he was subjected to, for eight months his body was extremely weak and he could hardly move his arms and hands. He needed help even for getting dressed or undressed. There was no reaction when he tried to raise allegations during the trial. He had not had any visits since 2006. Male detainee had been in the prison for about 18 months; after his arrest he was detained at Malabo Central Police Station for one month in a situation of terrible overcrowding, during which he received no food; he told the Special Rapporteur that a soldier named Marcus Ekua beat him on his buttocks at his office for about 30 minutes for two subsequent nights. He did not have a lawyer and had not had a trial; he was not allowed any visits; at Black Beach Prison he had to share a bed with up to three other men; he said he did small jobs for richer prisoners to get some food in exchange; he also reported that detainees who smoked were punished by the prison guards with beatings or solitary confinement for up to one month, sometimes even in shackles. Male detainee had spent more than one year at Black Beach Prison; before that he had been held in a police cell for six weeks; there he was hooded; several policemen tied his feet with a rope and handcuffed him; in this position, he was beaten with an elastic plastic baton on his soles and kidneys; they also placed a metal apparatus on his feet, which was too tight – according to the forensic expert the wound was still visible. As a result he could not walk for four days, but he did not confess; on the first day the beating lasted very long; he needed to be carried back to the cell; his feet and hands were numb – he could not feel any pain; he felt pain in the legs, not in the feet; he also reported that during that period he was not provided with any food. According to him, local prisoners at Black Beach Prison discriminated against foreign prisoners. Simon Mann, aged 56, British citizen, he had been extradited on 2 February 2008 from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea to stand trial in relation to his role as mercenary and leading figure in the attempted coup to overthrow President Obiang in March 2004. At Malabo airport he was met by the Minister of National Security, General Mba, and the Director of Black Beach Prison. He said he was welcomed and politely treated. From the airport he was immediately brought to Black Beach Prison and put in a single cell in the high security section. During the first two days at Black Beach Prison, he was interviewed by General Mba for two hours each day during which he offered to cooperate. He said he was very well treated by the prison authorities, no threats or violence were used against him. He attributed his good treatment to the fact that he had agreed to cooperate with the 26