A/HRC/16/52/Add.5 the fingerprint room and took her to the shower. When she walked out of the shower, she saw a CID officer and reported the rape. The same day she was brought to the hospital for a medical check. She said that the SOS Sexual Offence Officer in Boroko Police Station humiliated her when she examined her. She had to be naked again and was questioned in a disrespectful manner. She said that many women were too afraid of the officer to even talk to her. She was scared of being HIV positive. R. A., aged 25, has been at Bomana Correctional Institution since 2006 and was convicted in December 2008 for murder. She surrendered at Six-Mile Police Station, where the CID officer asked her to sleep with him. Family from the deceased came to the police station and one relative cut her on the head. The officers did not take her to the hospital, but, as she was bleeding heavily, they finally had to rush her there. However, the doctors refused to treat her because she was a murderer and preferred to “let her die”. As a result, she was taken back to a cell. She is HIV positive, a condition no detainee knows except her best friend. She feels much discriminated by the guards, who refuse to share the car with her when she needs to go to the hospital, and purposely delay her access to medical care. She recommends a full-time doctor be hired for the Correctional Institution. Also, they ask detainees to call them “boss” and verbally mistreat them. She thinks she should not work so much in the sun, in the garden, as she is weak and feels very often dizzy. Recently doctors detected a growth in her uterus that hurts her a lot, especially during the night. She states that when she cannot sleep because of the pain, no detainee sleeps. They gather around her to show her solidarity and love. Lyn Moses, aged 24, reported that she had been a victim of attempted rape in 2006, which she fended off by stabbing the attacker in the back. A year later, in 2007, she accompanied a female friend who had also been a victim of rape to Boroko Police Station. There, Ms. Moses was arrested and accused of having killed her attacker. The arrest and accusations came as a surprise to her since she was not aware of any pending arrest warrant, had not been hiding intentionally from the authorities, nor was she aware of the death of the attacker. The same day, she was interrogated from 9am to 4pm at Boroko Police Station. The officers demanded that she sign a statement in which she would confess to the killing. She was held for two months at the police station without being charged and no legal aid was available. Ms. Moses described the atmosphere at Boroko Police Station as frightening; officers were regularly drunk during the nights and threatened her. In August 2007, she was transferred to the female section of Bomana Prison. She was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and hopes to be released on parole in 2013. A British detainee with one child explained that she had to deliver the baby in the prison with only other prisoners helping her. She alleged that she was beaten during her arrest. The cell was too hot, in particular for the babies, and overcrowded. They also have to sleep on the floor. They receive three times a day food but it is not appropriate for breastfeeding mothers nor for babies. Children may stay with their mothers up to the age of 3. They can receive family visits on Saturdays for 30 minutes. Between 6 am and between 4 and 5.30 pm the door is open and they can go outside and do some work (e.g. sewing). The biggest problem is access to proper medical treatment: two children had tuberculosis in prison, a third one might also have it and two got bronchitis but they received no medicine. There were only female guards at the female prison, some of whom are very nice. Juvenile Section Anthony Mera, aged 20, was arrested on 8 April 2010 after he presented himself – together with his family – at the Six-Mile Police Station in Port Moresby. He stayed there for approximately six hours, during which he did not experience any ill-treatment by the police, which Mr. Mera explained was due to the presence of his parents. He was subsequently transferred to Boroko Police Station where he was charged and held in the 37