A/HRC/16/52/Add.5 Jeffrey Wosi, aged 33, was arrested on 3 March 2009 by the mobile squad. They blindfolded him and took him to the Saraga settlement with four cars. He was badly hit with iron pipes by the officers, who wanted him to confess to a crime. He had very large scars on his knee and on his back. On the knee he was cut with a knife and then thrown on the floor. He was then taken to Boroko police station, and later driven to the hospital. There, the police told the nurses that he was a ‘raskol’ and that there was no need to treat him. He was then taken back to Boroko police station for a month and then to Bomana. He had not seen a doctor since he left the hospital. Despite the fact that he reported this to his lawyer, no action was taken. Roger Bai, aged 31, was arrested by the Special Crime Squad at his place on 28 February at 2 a.m. because he was suspected of a crime. He was kicked and threatened with guns, before being blindfolded and handcuffed. They put him into a car, punched him, and took him to Dogura, in the remote outskirts of Port Moresby, a place where the police are allegedly known to take people in order to beat them. There, he was beaten on the shoulders with a metallic stick and fell off the car. He was then asked to run away. He refused, scared that the police would shoot him while fleeing. He was then beaten all over his body for hours while lying on the ground. He was threatened to be killed and shot in the leg. His right leg was beaten so severely that it broke. When the officers asked him to go back inside the car he could not move and had to be lifted. The officers then took him to Boroko Police Station, and he was formally charged by the police the same day. However, he was put in the lock-up without any medical check-up and denied the right to go to the hospital because there was no car available to take him. He spent a month in the cell without any treatment, and underwent surgery after X-rays showed that his leg was broken. His leg was still in the plaster cast at the time of the interview, and his eyesight in his left eye was bad because he had been beaten on the face as well. His story was corroborated by medical evidence. Although he complained to his lawyer, he still had not been taken to Court after almost three months. Tua Yangat Biori Silopon, aged 27, was arrested on 13 May 2009 at the Saraga area and taken to Six Mile Police Station. Then he was taken by CID officers to Boroko Police Station, with a mask on his face. In the CID office, he was interrogated and beaten with a metallic hammer and an ax, and threatened to be burnt with boiling water. The officers were Aaron Silas, Edi Nieara, and Mansion Tutuni. A lady came in the office and he was told that it was an identity parade. She did not recognize him and left. Officer Silas told him he would release him for 1000 Kinas, but he had no money and declined the offer. He was then locked for three months without any development, and then asked for 1000 Kinas again. Some time later he was taken to Eight Mile area of Port Moresby. During the ride he was beaten so badly that he cried and wanted to die. Once there, he was asked to run away in the bush but refused, knowing that he would be shot in the back. He went back to Boroko Police Station where he was interrogated for four days. At Bomana Correctional Institution, he was subjected to the collective punishment inflicted on all detainees after the escape of some detainees in January 2010. The Office of the Public Solicitor is helping him, and his next Court hearing was scheduled to happen some days later. J. V. had been at Bomana since 2001. Upon arrest, he was taken to Boroko Police Station, where he was beaten with a rifle butt on the back of the head. He was threatened with death if he did not confess. During the one-hour interrogation, he was also beaten by three CID officers. He complained that although he had surrendered and had admitted he was guilty, he had still been beaten. He was held at Boroko Police Station for four days and was only able to inform his family after two days. At Bomana, he was forced to take his clothes off at the main gate (“naked beach”) and was mocked by the officers during the body search. He indicated that during the raids, all detainees would be forced to go outside in a straight line, without clothes, where they were beaten. He added that he would like to run away because of the ill-treatment he was subjected to as a result of four different escape attempts. Each 22