A/HRC/16/52/Add.5 Peter Kumul, aged 43, was arrested on 11 June 2000 by four police officers at home and taken to Kundiawa police station, accused of killing a man in Port Moresby. He was punched and hit with the butt of the gun on the head, his side and knees. He was held for 26 days in Kundiawa police cell. His family did not know where he was. There was only water and another detainee shared some of his food with him. They were 11 men in one cell. CID officers from Port Moresby came and took him to Port Moresby, where he was detained in Boroko Police Station for 28 days. During interrogation by CID officers he was threatened with a gun. He went to Court in August 2000, where a remand warrant was issued and he was transferred to Bomana. He stayed with the general population for three months. On 12 October 2000 the presiding judge found him guilty and sentenced him to life. His appeal is still pending. In 2005 his son died and he was not allowed to attend the funeral. Later in 2005, another of his sons died and he was not allowed to attend this funeral either. On 19 June 2008 he went to the general hospital for his regular medical exam and whilst there he learned that his wife had died and the family had left the body at the hospital so he could see her when he came for his appointment. He decided to escape so he could attend his wife’s funeral. 19 months later on 11 February 2010 he was captured. He was at Eight-Mile settlement and 4 officers caught him, put a pistol to his head and fired, but there was no bullet. The second time they fired into his right ankle but there was no bullet. However, he fell, was kicked and told to walk to the car or else he would be shot. They pushed him and he fell down once again. They shot in the air; he was slapped and used rubber to tie his hands behind his back. He was taken to Boroko Police Station and interrogated by MOISC police. They threatened to shoot him in different parts of the body. The same day he was taken to Bomana and was locked in the main compound. On 18 February 2010 he was taken to the maximum security facility and he was told he would stay there for 3 months which would have finished on 11 June 2010. A male detainee, aged 22, was arrested on 8 January 2006 by approximately 5 CID officers. He was put in the car, where the officers put a mask on his face, beat him up and broke the ribs on his right side using a wheel spanner. He was taken to Baruni dump, where he was beaten. The officers took his mask off and shot him behind the right knee. He was then taken to Boroko. He was not given any medical treatment. While in detention at Bomana, his father died, but permission to go to his fathers’ funeral was denied. Out of frustration and due to the frequent raids and collective punishments that did not follow any processes, he decided to escape. In Sept 2009 there were two deaths in the cells due to the lack of medical care. Detainees wrote a petition to the OC/CS Commissioner calling for an investigation into the deaths but it was torn up by the guards and the officers. After that there was a raid. The police came and threw teargas into the cells and belted the detainees inside the cells. His right shoulder bone was broken and he was taken to hospital for an xray. He had escaped on 20 September 2009 and was recaptured on 8 February 2010. He was beaten in the cell with bush knives by four police officers. He spent one night in the police cell and was then taken to Bomana. At the main gate he was stripped and beaten; the ribs on his right side were broken with a 4 by 4 piece of timber. He spent one week in the main compound’s punishment block. He was charged with escape and sent to maximum security for three months and one day. Medical treatment had not been provided. Kito Aso, aged 28, was arrested on 18 July 2008 while travelling with friends on the Highlands Highway. The police stopped their car, arrested and handcuffed them and then started to beat them. They then placed them one on top of the other between the seats of a police van. During the ensuing transfer to Boroko Police Station, Mr. Kito and his friends were constantly punched and kicked. The beating continued after arriving at Boroko, where he was thrown into the cell and has injured his knee, which was still in pain, almost two years later. On the next day, 19 July, Mr. Aso was informed that he was arrested in relation to a robbery in Madang, which was allegedly masterminded by another detainee. Mr. Aso and approximately 20 other detainees were later taken out of the detention block, to the car 34