A/HRC/13/39/Add.4 that he was handcuffed during one entire day and was beaten with police truncheons all over his body. He indicated that he did not receive any food during these two weeks. Male detainee had been held in police custody at the Central Police Station in Malabo for two months. During the interrogation his feet and hands were tight together and he was suspended, face down, for 45 minutes. In this position he was beaten with police truncheons on the soles of his feet (phalaca) and on his haunches, where he had undergone surgery because of a hernia only shortly before arrest. As a result of the beatings he was unable to walk for two weeks. After two months he was transferred to Black Beach Prison, where he has since been detained for nine months. During that period, he could not communicate with his family and friends, since visits were prohibited and there was no possibility to receive or send letters. If a prisoner was released, he was checked by the wards before leaving the prison and, in case he carried letters from other detainees, they were taken away. As a result of the beatings, his hernia deteriorated and he was in need of surgery, but had no access to medical treatment. Male detainee had been held at Malabo Central Police Station for over two months between March and May 2008 and was subsequently held incommunicado in Black Beach Prison. At the police station, he was brought to the office of the Secretary of State for Security, a place which was allegedly “equipped” with all the torture instruments. The police asked him to produce his election registration card which he did not have with him. He was forced to strip completely naked. His hands and feet were handcuffed behind his back and tied together and he was suspended face down from an iron bar fixed between two chairs. In this position, he was beaten with police truncheons on the soles of his feet and starter cables of a car battery (which he felt was weighing 30 kilograms) were fixed to his testicles. Furthermore, he was forced – with his head pushed down by the boot of a police officer in his neck – to hold his head during two hours over a lighted candle and to inhale the smoke. This resulted in a complete dizziness and was reportedly “the worst he had ever experienced”. In addition, as a consequence of the ill-treatment he could not urinate for four days and was urinating blood after this period. The torture was used in order to extract a confession and information and lasted from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. During the two months at Malabo Central Police Station, he was kept in a cell of approximately 6 sqm, together with eleven other persons. There were no sanitary facilities, and the detainees had to urinate in plastic bottles and to defecate in plastic bags. He further reported that he was not allowed to speak during the trial. Although his lawyer mentioned that he had been tortured during interrogation, the judges did not react to this information. The trial lasted only 10 minutes, and he was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and a fine. In Black Beach Prison he was held under a very strict regime; visits were not allowed and he had no possibility to communicate with the outside world. He had no access to medical treatment. Male detainee, foreigner, student of science and technology, was arrested at the end of February 2008 and brought to the Central Police Station in Malabo. During the interrogation he was not mistreated because he said he was under the protection of an Equatoguinean woman he had been staying with. Although he denied having been involved in the theft he was accused of, he was told that foreigners would be automatically detained at Black Beach Prison. He had spent five days at the Central Police Station without being provided any food, so that he depended on the food given to him by other detainees. At the beginning of March 2008, he was transferred to Black Beach Prison. He reported that the foreigners among the prisoners were discriminated against and often experienced interprisoner violence. He also reported that prisoners were frequently beaten by police officers inside the prison in front of everyone. Male detainee arrived at Black Beach Prison at the end of August 2008. One week earlier, he had been picked up by two police officers at his house, who said his name was on a list at the police station. Upon arrest he was handcuffed behind his back and slapped in the 30