A/HRC/16/52/Add.5 nine months imprisonment for drug possession. He was put in a cell with two sick detainees. A male detainee, aged 33, had been arrested on 18 May and beaten with a gun butt on the head and face. At the police station, he was punched while being questioned by several officers from the Kerowagi mobile squad. He had been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for possession of marijuana. Rex Yanonepa, aged 45, had been in Bihute for four years, serving a life sentence for murder. In 1999, he had been stabbed in the shoulder by a CID officer at Rabaul Police Station, in an effort to obtain a confession. He was also beaten on the head with a gun butt and later taken to see a doctor. He informed the judge about the ill-treatment, but no action was taken. He complained about the use of verbal violence by the officers and the conditions of detention. He added that the conditions in Rabaul were so bad that the detainees had taken the matter to court. A male detainee, aged 27, had been detained there for two years, completing a three-year sentence. He had been beaten, stabbed and shot on the foot from a short distance, despite the fact that he surrendered upon arrest. At Goroka Police Station, he was told to close his eyes and say his final prayers, and was then shot by an officer. He was also beaten on the face and head with a gun butt. He was later taken to the hospital, where he stayed for one month without receiving any medical treatment, following police instructions. He escaped from the hospital and was re-arrested three weeks later. He never received any medical attention. He spent six months in a detention cell, in isolation, without access to air or light. In the cell, he was repeatedly beaten with a wire, timber sticks and stones. He also complained about other detainees beating him and taking his food while the officers watched. He complained about an injury on his foot which was ignored because he was an escapee. Kundiawa Police Station Visited on 20 and 21 May 2010 General information The Special Rapporteur was received by Senior Constable Koneyal Yaldnia during the first visit, who was not aware of the mission and terms of reference of the Special Rapporteur, and who refused to provide access to the detention facilities without having received a respective authorization from his superiors. The Acting Provincial Police Commissioner, Chief Inspector Albert Korin, later arrived at the station and opened the cells. The lock-up was in a building behind the police station, where 33 males and four women were held. The male detainees were held in three different cells with 8, 11, and 14 detainees in each. Mr. Korin stated that the water supply was a serious problem. In light of corroded and leaking water tanks, water had to be fetched from the local river, which raised health concerns. There were also no functioning showers or toilets available. The Special Rapporteur saw a circular in the station requesting all police officers to release detainees after 24 hours unless they were charged. One of the officers indicated that the CID required digital cameras and computers to perform adequate investigations and collect evidence. He said it was particularly important for CID to have a locked safe for keeping files, after all of his files relating to a police case he was investigating had been burnt in 2002. Logistic support is also lacking, and autopsy teams are needed, with the necessary facilities to keep corpses and to collect fresh evidence. A task force officer on duty in front of the police station stated that he regularly kicked detainees upon arrest, and that officers purposefully denied certain items to detainees in order to teach them a lesson. He states that “it is normal; they committed a crime, so they 50