CAT/C/59/D/686/2015 article 27 of the prison rules. Under that article, prisoners were entitled to walk for one hour each day as exercise. The complainant claims that, contrary to what the deputy director of La Farera had declared on 28 February 2011, he had been confined to his cell 24 hours a day. The complainant reported to the government of Ticino that he was in solitary confinement 24 hours a day. On 6 July 2012, the justice division of the Ticino department of institutions replied with a letter declaring that it was too late to investigate the complainant’s conditions of imprisonment and that the date on which he was supposed to have started walking for one hour as exercise with other prisoners would not be modified. The complainant indicates that he sent letters to the Swiss authorities to alert them to the solitary confinement conditions in La Farera but that his complaints were not addressed. 2.12 In April 2011, the complainant started a hunger strike to denounce the lack of response to his complaints and the ongoing prison conditions. The Attorney General of Ticino therefore telephoned the complainant and informed him that the Public Prosecutor’s Office would examine his complaint. That same day, the prosecutor sent a letter to the complainant confirming that such measures would be taken. However, the complainant claims that he never received any notification of a decision regarding his complaint. He further asserts that in May 2011, after several protests, the Attorney General of Ticino went to La Stampa prison to talk to him. The complainant claims that he was interrogated under irregular conditions: he was not represented by counsel and was threatened and the prosecutor did not draft a written statement of the interrogation. The complainant filed a complaint in that regard. On 10 May 2011, the Attorney General of Ticino sent him a letter stating that the Public Prosecutor’s Office had no competence with regard to his claims of torture, as such complaints would constitute an “application for revision”. 2.13 On 4 April 2013, the complainant was transferred from La Stampa to the high security prison in Bochuz, in the Canton of Vaud. During his imprisonment, he gave information in electronic format to Swiss agents at La Stampa and made a list of the documents he had in his cell before being transferred. He alleges that those documents contained evidence that he was innocent and that he had suffered grave human rights violations by Swiss agents. Before leaving La Stampa, the complainant gave a copy of the list to the prison authorities and requested to have all his documents transferred. However, he never received them. The authorities of Bochuz prison declared that they never received the documents and sent a letter to the authorities in Ticino. On 2 August 2013, the deputy director of La Stampa sent a letter to the deputy director of the prison in Bochuz declaring that the documents were in a hard drive that was being held by the Lugano Public Prosecutor’s Office because of the criminal investigation against the complainant initiated on 20 April 2013 by La Stampa authorities. After receiving the letter, the complainant asked the deputy directors of both prisons to find the originals of the documents, but he never received them. 2.14 On 26 June 2014, the complainant was transferred back to La Stampa. Before the transfer, he prepared a list of documents containing information about the unlawful interrogations and acts of torture he had suffered. He was told by the prison official responsible for his transfer that the documents would be sent immediately. However, he never received them. He filed a complaint about the retention of the documents but did not receive a reply. He states that during his transfer he was taken in a van to Lausanne police station, where he was beaten to force him to write a statement withdrawing the declarations he had sent to the Swiss authorities. He further alleges that “a group of persons” took him to a place where he was injected with a substance to make him weak. He alleges that his hands were tied and that he was burned under the nipple. He also claims that the persons who had taken him had threatened to kill his relatives. 2.15 The complainant asserts that when he arrived at La Stampa he declared that he had been tortured during his transfer and had shown his injuries to the prison authorities, who 4