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into a vehicle, but she did not know he was a police officer since he was wearing civilian
clothes. He had no arrest warrant. She was punched in the mouth and told “you know what
happened”. She worked for a company selling arms and laptops and was driven to the
office. She was threatened with rape unless she would give information on “them”. She was
so scared that she gave them her ex-boyfriend’s name. She was driven to his house and the
police officers jumped out of their cars and rushed into his place. They pointed guns at him,
and bashed him with gun butts and boots without asking any questions. They dragged him
into her car, still punching him and hurting her too. They took them both to an interrogation
room and stripped him naked. They mocked him by asking her about the size of his penis.
She repeated she was innocent and wanted to leave. An officer took her in another room
and asked her for sexual favour in exchange of her release. She refused, and as he was
trying to undress her another officer came in and he had to stop. After her warrant was
ready she was taken in Bomana, where she complained that the female guards were very
restrictive and mean. Since she had to go to Court again, she was taken to the female cell of
Boroko Police Station, where she had not been beaten and could see her family often. She
thought the custody officers were nice, but there were no female guards. She thought they
respect her “like a sister or a mother”, and during the day women can walk outside their cell
and talk to the male detainees. During the night the door was closed for safety reasons. She
did not like the food, but the officers and her family brought her different items. She only
regretted that she did not get her medication for epilepsy and repeated that rapes happened a
lot in exchange of release on the day of the arrest.
A female detainee, aged 29, had been held between Bomana Prison and Boroko Police
Station since 2009. She had left her husband due to domestic violence, and after she filed a
complaint with the police, she was locked inside the house for two weeks. She tried to leave
her husband once again, but was arrested. She had been arrested at home by ten officers
from the Hohola Police Station, who beat her with sticks and with a hammer on the back of
the head, and dragged her out of her home. Five officers continued to beat and punch her on
the way to the police station. The police then burned her parents’ home. At Hohola Police
Station, some neighbours who were present threw things at her. Other police officers,
including her husband’s colleagues, threatened to open the cell to rape her. She was then
transferred to Bomana. She was taken back to Boroko Police Station for a court hearing,
and she was forced to spend one night in the men’s cell where she was gang-raped. She was
also taken to the interrogation room, where her husband’s colleagues threatened to kill her
with a bush knife.
Male block
Henry Sibona, aged 21, arrested in the streets a week earlier, together with four other men,
by the mobile squad. Two people died after being shot, and he had been shot in the left arm.
This was corroborated by the forensic medical expert examination.. He had clear cutting
traumatic wounds produced with a cutting instrument (probably a knife) in the leg and back
and very clear bullet wound in his arm that was still bleeding. The kind of traumatic
injuries observed were clearly intentional and to ill-treatment. The shot wound needed
medical treatment that had not been provided. He had not seen a lawyer and nor had he
been taken to the hospital. When the Special Rapporteur checked the registers, he noticed
that he was not registered.
K. B., aged 16, had been sleeping in cell 2 with nine other adult men for the last nine days.
He had been arrested by the CID on suspicion of murder. He was beaten with iron rods on
the back and in the face. After his warrant was ready he was sent to Bomana Correctional
Institution, where he was beaten upon arrival at Gate 24, where he said all detainees are
stripped naked and beaten. He was later also beaten in his cell by different officers, because
some detainees were fighting. He was taken back to Boroko Police Station to attend a new
hearing in Court, and he had no lawyer.
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