A/HRC/13/39/Add.2 Individual cases 20. J.O., aged 17, had been detained at SER for seven months. He had to remain in the facility for another four years. He had been held in a calabozo for 25 days. He was presently held in isolation and was not allowed to leave his cell. There was no water in his cell, and he often had to yell for a long time in order to receive a bottle of water. He used to self-inflict wounds with a lightbulb. He said that his cell was full of flies and mosquitoes. He reported that when the detainees got anxious and started screaming, they received sedatives via injection, but he said that he had not allowed the doctors to give him an injection. He complained that the facility was very dirty, and that the milk he received sometimes had dead flies in it. However, he noted that the food was better than that served at Las Piedras, and that the social workers were violent at Las Piedras as well. His worst experience was spending Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve locked up. He felt guilty because his mother had four other children to feed, and he could no longer steal to help her. He had an injury in one eye, the result of an argument with a friend, who shot him, and as a result he lost his vision in that eye. 21. K.G., 17 years old, had been detained in SER for four months and had another six months of his prison sentence to serve. Before being taken there, he was detained at Las Puertas. He was previously detained at Las Puertas twice. He reported that he was beaten at Las Puertas when he wanted to rebel. The guards allegedly wrapped rags over their hands and beat him on his body and his head. However, he did not have any complaints about illtreatment at SER, and was happy that he could go out to the courtyard daily between 2 and 6 p.m. He said that he took sedatives and drug-substitution medication for his crack addiction. He had legal counsel, and believed he would be released in 12 days. 22. J.G., aged 16, was arrested on 28 November 2008 and accused of having committed three armed robberies. He was taken to the police station, where he was reportedly subjected to submarino (simulated asphyxiation). He spent one month at Las Puertas, two months at Las Piedras, another month at CEMEC, and the last month at SER. He reported that he was beaten up on several occasions at Las Piedras and that his personal belongings were confiscated. He further noted that the food provided by the authorities at CEMEC was terrible. However, the treatment was good and he was not confined to his cell, but had access to the garden. He had no complaints regarding ill-treatment at SER, but had multiple scars on his arms from self-inflicted injuries. 23. S.A., aged 18, was arrested in January 2009. After the arrest, he was immediately taken for examination to a doctor and then to the 10th Sectional Police Station. He reported that he was put in a cell and beaten all over his body with a police truncheon for 30 minutes. After that, he was transferred to Las Puertas where he was detained for two weeks. At Las Puertas, he said that he was beaten once all over his body by a social worker. He later spent two weeks in detention at CEMEC. According to him, the treatment at CEMEC was better than in the other centres, as the juveniles were allowed to spend time in the courtyard from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 to 6 p.m. Subsequently, he was transferred to SER, where he was subjected to a much harsher regime. He was confined to a space with three cells and a larger room, which he shared with two other boys for 22 hours a day. He had no complaints regarding ill-treatment, but was suffering from the lack of activities and educational programmes. He further reported that while he was previously detained at Las Piedras in November 2008, he was handcuffed to a window and subsequently given electric shocks on the upper part of his body. 24. J.B., aged 16, had been detained for two months and had to serve another six months. Although the maximum period allowed for remaining at Las Puertas was 25 days, he had been detained there for 32 days before being transferred to SER. Fifteen days after he arrived at Las Puertas he was beaten by the social workers as a punishment because he had cut himself. He was hung from handcuffs from the window bars of the visitors’ room. GE.09-17655 29