A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 A male detainee, aged 24, from Ghana, was arrested for allegedly buying drugs. He was brought to the CID where he was slapped in the face and beaten on his head and arms. He was held at the CID for two days without being provided with food or drinking water. He was not able to access the toilets more than once or twice a day. He was told to be brought before the court in two days. A male detainee, aged 19, from Iraq, was arrested for allegedly possessing illegal medication. He was brought to the CID where he was slapped in the face and then a helmet was placed on his head. He was continuously beaten on his head in front of all other detainees. Despite a strong headache and a bruised lip he was denied access to a doctor. He complained that his medication was taken from him. Hassan Maede, aged 18, from Algeria, said he was beaten by police in the past few days and had marks on his arms and legs. Amar Abou, aged 19, from Palestine, said a couple of days prior to the visit, he was beaten by the police with a baton before being detained, and had marks on his back. Abdul Salam Amin, aged 22, from Algeria, came to Greece via Turkey and had been detained for 32 days. He slept on the floor, the food was rotten, and there was no shower. There was no accessible toilet so he urinated in plastic bottles. Karime Sarme, aged 19, from Morocco, was approached by the police who showed him some hashish and accused him of owning it. He said he was hit by the police officer’s helmet. He said that he and the other men in this room were held in the cell downstairs and had been brought upstairs to the room of the CID. Ahmed Jasine, aged 22, from Palestine. Four days ago he was hit by a police motorcycle on the street and then detained. He had marks on his arms and head. Mohammed Sayed, aged 19, from Afghanistan, had been held in this police station for two months. He hurt his leg when he was detained and had no money to buy medicine. Soufli Police and Border Guard Station, Soufli Visited on 12 October 2010 The Special Rapporteur was received by Chief of Police Evangelos Rufios. The border guard station provides for two cells with a capacity for 38 detainees while 68 detainees were being held at the time of the visit. The cells were said to be regularly overcrowded sometimes holding more than 100 detainees. The cells have recently been cleaned, painted and according to the detainees the sanitary installations have been renovated. The facilities were nevertheless in a fairly poor state and unsuitable for long-term detention. Due to the overcrowding many detainees were forced to sleep on the floor. The facility provided for two toilets/showers for all detainees but no soap. The facility had no door but grids to the outside reportedly posing a problem at cold temperatures. There was no courtyard to exercise for the detainees. The border guard station also had a nursery station providing a range of medication Individual cases Hadi Azarmi, aged 35, an Iranian refugee who had been living for two years in the United Kingdom where he has a refugee status. Following the death of his parents in Iran, he went back to the country for their funerals, but was then forbidden to leave it again, and his passport was taken away. He therefore decided to go back to the UK via Greece. He was arrested in the streets of Soufli by two police officers. They did not use violence, and simply asked him to come into a car. They then registered him and locked him up in the 28