A/HRC/16/52/Add.5 He explained that the bad food, coupled with the lack of hygiene led 54 detainees, including him, to escape in 2009. However, he was recaptured five months later and brought to the maximum security wing. He was beaten upon arrival by five officers with barb wires, wooden sticks, and rubber hoses, some of them filled with iron. This was two months before the visit and he had not been beaten since, although he said he was often mocked by the custody officers. He also complained that he was not allowed to work, except for the few times he could cut the grass. Peter John Placeman, aged 32, was arrested in 1993 at home, by the CID. They took him to Boroko Police Station, where he was beaten for more than an hour by several officers in order to confess a crime. Two days later, he was taken to court and then to Bomana Correctional Facility. He was sentenced to 18 years, and complained that unlike other detainees, he did not have the right to parole. He escaped in 2007 and was recaptured one month later by the “dog unit”. He was then beaten with knives. When he was taken back to Bomana, he was taken to the general compound and beaten with copper plates on the head, and with aluminium sticks on the feet. They then placed him in the maximum security wing. He was also part of the major escape in February 2010, where 18 detainees left the compound. He said he suffered a lot, and felt like he was an animal. He was often beaten with rubber hoses and wooden sticks, when detainees misbehaved. He also complained that as a punishment, they cannot have visits, and that they were locked up most of the day, with their plates filled with bugs because they could not even wash them. Henry Henz Patrick, aged 28. On 12 January 2010, he drove the car that picked up the 12 escapees, led by William Kapris. They hid in the bush and spent the night together. He left them the following day, went down the river, caught a bus and went to his village. He did not dare to report the issue to the police since he knew he would be tortured. He hid for two weeks, before his brother-in-law denounced him. The “dog unit” of the police came in the early morning and surrounded the house. He surrendered quickly, and was put into a car. At a junction, they stopped and asked him to tell everything, “because your life is in our hands”. They then tried to shoot at his foot but he avoided the bullets. They took him to Butana, an allegedly famous place where police abuse criminals and shoot them. He was blindfolded and taken back to the “Dog Unit Compound” and was placed in the only cell where there were no dogs. The next day he was taken to Bomana Correctional Institution and was interrogated from 9am to 4pm by the CID. An officer told him they would shoot him anyway. He was taken back to Boroko Police Station before his hearing at the Court, where he had no lawyer, and then back to Bomana’s general compound. A day later he was moved to the Maximum security compound. He had no lawyer, and felt like he was being treated like a criminal and not like a remandee. Oliver Benny Gapi, aged 33, was beaten by the mobile squad when he was arrested on 18 July 2008. He had just robbed a bank and was on the highway with 14 other people in three cars. The police chased them and beat them on the highway. They punched them, handcuffed them and took them to Boroko Police Station, where they had to lie down in the car park. The officers then beat them with any object they could grab. They spent four days in an overcrowded cell before being formally charged on 22 July. He went to court but has not been sentenced, thus has been a remandee for two years. On 12 January 2010 he escaped with Kapris and the 10 other detainees. They went to a forest, where there was no food and no water. He fell asleep, alone, and was discovered by someone who called the police. He was taken to the hospital where he remained for some days, before being taken back to Boroko Police Station. On 26 January he went to Court, where he was sentenced to six months for the escape, and subsequently placed in the maximum security compound. Floyd Kohai, aged 34, had been arrested on 11 February 2010 for harbouring an escapee. He was taken to Dogura, where he was given an empty gun and told to run, so that it could appear like the police was chasing him. The police fired shots at his legs but he was not 32