002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 580. Some witnesses state that prisoners were released, sent to cooperatives, work sites or transferred to other security centres.2508 Interrogation 581. The vast majority of the prisoners were interrogated at the North Zone security centre. Five witnesses and civil parties gave evidence on this subject.2509 It emerges from their accounts that prisoners were questioned about their support of Vietnam or about being a CIA agent. The interrogations took place south of the prison at Kesararam pagoda.2510 Prisoners (numbering eight to ten per session) were unshackled from their cells, handcuffed and walked to the pagoda. Each session lasted for three hours.2511 582. During interrogations some prisoners were seriously mistreated by different means: beating with a stick (sometimes until unconscious), electric shocks administered by placing a live wire on the prisoner’s ear, suffocation, removing fingernails and toenails, and even throwing prisoners into a bonfire.2512 One of the former detainees explains that he saw a woman sent for interrogation two or three days after the delivery of her baby, who had to be carried back to the prison by the guards because she could not walk.2513 Three of the former detainees state that they were not subjected to mistreatment during their interrogations,2514 but this was clearly the exception. 583. On some occasions, once interrogation was complete, prisoners were transported by truck. A former prisoner explained that he was taken for interrogation together with 17 other prisoners and was the only one who was not transported afterwards by truck on the road to Angkor Wat.2515 Executions and disappearances 584. The majority of the prisoners in the North Zone security centre, including children2516, were executed. Prisoners were transported by trucks to the execution sites located at Trinh Vine plantation, south of Angkor Wat Temple.2517 Executions occurred on a regular basis. A former guard explains that each time around ten prisoners would be taken for execution2518 but former detainees recall seeing trucks transporting up to 60 prisoners.2519 Witnesses explain further that prisoners were transported by trucks every week or two.2520 One former detainee personally witnessed the execution of approximately 60 prisoners. He describes how these 60 men and women were taken handcuffed out of the truck and killed “by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, National Road 4, Choam Chao, Dangkao Phnom Penh Mailing address: P.O. Box 71, Phnom Penh; Tel: +855(0)23 218914 Fax: +855(0) 23 218941. 149