E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 77 412. Children are reportedly held in cells for up to 24 hours a day without adequate diet, bedding or sanitary facilities, recreation or any other activities. It was also reported that at the above-mentioned lock-ups the cells are overcrowded; that children are forced to defecate into waste buckets that often overflow in their cells; that sewage systems outside the cells are inoperative; that children have to sleep on wet floors without any form of bedding; and that insect and vermin infestation is rampant. In addition, children were said to have little or no access to legal aid and social assistance while in the lock-ups and those injured or otherwise suffering ill-health appeared to be denied prompt medical attention. Japan Information received from the Government with respect to cases transmitted in previous reports 413. By letter dated 13 December 1994 the Special Rapporteur made a request to the Government to reconsider its decision to refrain from commenting on the case of Youichi Isoe, who has reportedly been held in solitary confinement since September 1982 in the Asahikawa prison in Hokkaido. The Special Rapporteur had initially transmitted the case to the Government on 10 October 1994. On 25 January 1995 the Government replied that it always aimed to determine the best way to treat prisoners, based on the results of "scientific classification researches" of individual prisoners as to their mental and physical condition, their personal histories and their behaviour. In the case of Youichi Isoe, his behaviour had demonstrated that he did not have the will to associate with other inmates and that he lacked the ability to adjust himself to group treatment. He behaved in a manner hostile to prison authority, declared that he would be released from prison only by violent attack by his comrades of "the anti-establishment group", and refused to talk in interviews with prison staff who had advised him to work in the in-house factory. Accordingly, he is held in solitary confinement, which is lawful under Japan’s Prison Law and Regulation. He has always been treated fairly and has never been subjected to torture in prison. Kenya Information transmitted to the Government and replies received 414. By letter dated 18 September 1995 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information indicating that the use of torture by police to obtain "confessions" was almost systematic. The methods of torture reported include: beatings and whippings on different parts of the body, especially the feet; suspension in a contorted position, accompanied by beatings; submersion in water; rape; genital abuse, including by insertion of objects into the vagina and pulling the penis or pricking it with pins. 415. Police officials reportedly often refuse to bring torture victims to hospital for medical treatment. When such victims are taken to hospital, they are allegedly kept chained to their beds. Persons so hospitalized were said to be treated usually by government doctors who are under pressure to downplay the nature of a victim’s injury or to falsify death certificates and