A/63/175 78. For example: (a) In Abkhazia, Georgia, the Special Rapporteur expressed concern about a death row prisoner held in solitary confinement in a 3 x 4 m cell for what appeared to be a very long time (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.3, para. 53); (b) In Mongolia, the Special Rapporteur expressed concern about the special isolation regime (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.4, paras. 47-49). At Prison No. 405 he met nine prisoners serving 30-year sentences, held in isolation in 3 x 3 m cells for up to 24 hours per day. The prisoners were visibly depressed, expressed despair, had suicidal thoughts, and said they would have preferred the death penalty to solitary confinement. The total isolation of the detainees did not seem to be motivated by reasons of security; the purpose appeared to be to impose additional punishment, leading to severe pain or suffering. The Special Rapporteur concluded that the entire regime amounted to cruel and inhuman treatment, if not torture. In relation to death row prisoners in Detention Centre No. 461 (Gants Hudag) and Zunmod Detention Centre, the fact that they were detained in complete isolation, were continuously kept handcuffed and shackled, and denied adequate food constitutes additional punishments which could only be qualified as torture (ibid., paras. 50-54); (c) In China, the Special Rapporteur received allegations of prolonged solitary confinement at Beijing Municipal Women’s Re-education through Labour Facility (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6, appendix 2, para. 10). Although prison staff indicated that prisoners were held for only up to seven days in the small solitary cells of the Intensive Training Section, detainees alleged that they were held for up to 60 days, where they received “training” to induce them to renounce their beliefs; (d) In relation to detainees at the United States of America Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, the Special Rapporteur reported that although 30 days of isolation was the maximum period permissible, detainees were put back in isolation after very short breaks, so that they were in quasi-isolation for up to 18 months (E/CN.4/2006/120, para. 53). It was concluded that the uncertainty about the length of detention and prolonged solitary confinement of the prisoners amounted to inhuman treatment (ibid., para. 87); (e) In Jordan, at the Al-Jafr Correction and Rehabilitation Centre, which is now closed, the Special Rapporteur received allegations of newly arrived prisoners being beaten in solitary confinement cells (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3, appendix, para. 9). He further received allegations of detention in solitary cells for long periods (e.g. ibid., para. 21); (f) In Paraguay, the Special Rapporteur received allegations of detention in solitary cells for more than one month (A/HRC/7/3/Add.3, appendix I, para. 46). Allegations of solitary confinement for up to two weeks for disciplinary punishment were received in the women’s prison (ibid., para. 4); (g) In Nigeria, the Special Rapporteur heard numerous allegations that prisoners were held in solitary confinement for up to two weeks on disciplinary grounds. At Kaduna Medium Security Prison, he found a teenage boy suffering from severe mental illness, locked up in a punishment cell with his feet shackled (A/HRC/7/3/Add.4, appendix I, para. 115); (h) In Indonesia, the Special Rapporteur received allegations of detention in solitary cells for more than one month (A/HRC/7/3/Add.7, appendix I, para. 34). 08-44075 19