A/HRC/7/3/Add.6 page 40 treatment for his injuries. The second day he was interrogated by a drunken policemen who used vulgar language but who did not use any force apart from grabbing his shirt. On 25 September, he was produced before a magistrate and later transferred to the prison. There was no medical examination upon arrival at the prison. The detainee’s family was informed of his detention only after his transfer to the prison. He reported regular visits by his parents, and he is represented by a lawyer. He made no allegation of ill-treatment in prison. He is expected to appear in court on 9 October. He can play sports. He reported that it is generally fine in the boys’ cell (i.e. ages 17 to 19). He did fight on the day of the visit and received a warning from the ASP. 55. M.G.C.B., aged 15, Onagama, Polonnaruwa. On 3 October 2007, he was arrested at home, accused of having stolen three bicycles. He alleges that one constable slapped his face and threatened him with a knife during the arrest. He was taken to Kaduruvala Police Station, where he was kept in custody for 24 hours. The following day, he was produced before a magistrate and subsequently transferred to the prison on 4 October where he spent his first night in the female wing. He made no allegations of ill-treatment in prison. At the time of the visit, he was detained alone, away from the other prisoners, in a cell on the second floor, above the ASP’s office, which also contained empty offices. Shortly after the interview, officers informed the Special Rapporteur that the boy would be transferred to a children’s house for under-16s later that day. 56. Detainee. Upon arrest he was beaten by the officers all over his body with wooden batons. Other people on the street witnessed the beating. He was brought to Polonnaruwa Police Station where he was detained for three days. At night he was taken out of his cell, brought to the interrogation room and beaten and kicked. He was not handcuffed and was clothed. He was beaten continuously for 10 minutes while standing. Sometimes he fell down and then the officers started kicking him on the ground. He was beaten all over his body with a large heavy plastic pipe of seven centimetres in diameter filled with dirt with which he was struck mainly on the back and arms. He reported that his arms and thighs were swollen after the beatings. He did not launch an official complaint, nor tell the magistrate of the ill-treatment. After one month in the remand prison he was brought to a doctor but he did not tell him of the beatings. He complained of the quality of the food in the prison and reported that the guards regularly beat the inmates in front of other detainees with belts and sticks for punishment. On the day of the visit, he reported that a mentally ill boy was being beaten by the guards because he had attacked another detainee with a razor blade. 57. Hitihamique Muthubanda, aged 52. He reported that after he had a quarrel with other detainees one and a half months ago, the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) ordered a guard to beat him in front of the others. The guard bent him over and beat him on the back with a broom stick. When he tried to get up he was beaten on his buttocks and finally all over his body apart from the head. He reached back to protect his buttocks and was struck on the hands. He showed dark bruises under the nails of his left index and middle fingers. The beating lasted for about five to six minutes. The guard’s name is Indika and he is still on duty in the prison. He reported that the mentally ill boy was beaten in the morning by several guards and was locked in the punishment cell where persons are sometimes detained for up to one month.