A/HRC/4/33/Add.3 page 11 28. During the mission the Special Rapporteur visited the detention facility of the General Intelligence Directorate, Al-Jafr Correction and Rehabilitation Centre, Siwaqa Correction and Rehabilitation Centre, Juweidah Correction and Rehabilitation Centre, Juweidah (Female) Correction and Rehabilitation Centre, and the detention facility of the Public Security Directorate’s Criminal Investigation Department. Save the GID, where he was denied the right to speak to detainees in private, the Special Rapporteur conducted private interviews with detainees, and met with prison officials. He also held meetings with government officials, the NCHR, NGOs, as well as lawyers. 29. Over the course of the visit to Jordan, many consistent and credible allegations of torture and ill-treatment were brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur. It was alleged that torture was largely practised to extract confessions or obtain intelligence between the time of arrest and transfer to pretrial detention. In particular, it was alleged that torture was practised by GID at their headquarters in Amman to extract confessions and obtain intelligence in pursuit of counter-terrorism and national security objectives, and at CID in Amman to extract confessions in the course of routine criminal investigations. He also received many allegations of torture in various local police stations. 30. In addition, the Special Rapporteur received a high number of consistent and credible allegations that once persons were transferred from GID and CID to the Correction and Rehabilitation Centres for either pretrial detention - virtually all suspects are held in remand without being subject to alternatives to custody - or to serve out their sentences, they were subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. The purpose for this treatment was alleged to be the intimidation of prisoners, and arbitrary corporal punishment, amounting to torture in some instances. 31. Disregard for basic safeguards for detainees, such as notification for reasons of arrest, prompt access to lawyers and families, let alone any serious medical examinations, is reportedly common. The methods of torture described in the cases that the Special Rapporteur came across included, inter alia: beatings with fists, truncheons, batons, plastic pipes, tree branches, electrical cables, broom handles, kicking, use of electroshock batons, burning with cigarette butts; suspension in a strappado-type position, or being hung from the top of a cell door with a rope tied to hands that are tied behind the back, with variations including being suspended until the toes barely touch the floor, yanked from the legs or feet while being suspended, and beaten on the soles of the feet; the ghost position, where a person is suspended by a rope or pole beneath their shoulders and beaten on their soles and body; the farruj (“grilled chicken”) position, where the detainee is handcuffed behind the knees and hung upside-down from a pole passed behind the knees and subjected to beatings; falaqa, i.e. beatings on the soles of the feet - in some variations, the person is made to walk upon a salt-covered floor afterwards; being hung from the ankles and dropped onto the floor; handcuffed for prolonged periods; restrained to a wall with hands outstretched in the hot sun; sleep deprivation for five consecutive days and nights; and prolonged periods of incommunicado detention. Prisoners reported the deployment of “special brigades” of up to 30 police personnel that carry out beatings in sleeping quarters with the pretext of looking for drugs or illegal weapons. 32. Prisoners also reported humiliating treatment, including: forcible shaving of heads; threats of sexual violence; being subjected to strong sexual insults against female family