A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 A male detainee, aged 21, from Algeria, was arrested on 21 May 2010 and brought to the police station at Piraeus. There he was beaten with fists and a baseball bat by the officers. One of his thumbs broke. He was kept at the police station for 5 days without access to a doctor. Then he was transferred to Korydallos Prison where he is detained since. He has had no access to a lawyer and has not seen a judge. He complained about the treatment of the prison guards who regularly insulted and humiliated him. He complained about being detained underground. Due to the humidity in the cells he displayed skin problems. Group interview with male detainees, who complain that it is colder in the basement, and that they have only one hour of warm water per day. They say that the food is not good, in insufficient quantity (twice a day), and that the kitchen facilities are dirty. Furthermore, they have no access to a doctor. Korydallos Women’s Prison, Athens Visited on 18 October 2010 There are 201 female detainees. On the date of the visit. The detainees are held in a three story building and remandees are not separated from those serving sentences. They live partly in chambers of 16 to 18 people and in cells of 2 to 3. Generally, it overcrowded but the facility is much better taken care of than the males’ part. The Special Rapporteur noticed a high level of frustration with the conditions of detention and the system of criminal justice in general. The detainees complained about long periods (up to 15 months) of pre-trial detention, lack of access to free legal aid, and long prison terms for comparatively minor crimes, above all drug related offences. Detainees have to pay for services which should be provided free of charge by the prison administration, such as toilet paper, soap, decent food, etc. Many detainees have serious diseases, such as hepatitis C, HIV, multiple sclerosis, without access to basic medical assistance. Individual cases A female detainee, aged 40, from Greece, was arrested on 21 June 2010 by 15 policemen at her home in Drama in the presence of her 6 year-old son. They brought her with handcuffs behind her back to the police station of Drama, together with her son. There she was interrogated and severely beaten on the 1st floor by one CID officer in civilian clothes and by the CID commander in civilian clothes. They beat her in her face, in her back and neck. As a result, two ribs and her cheekbone were broken. She was brought before the prosecutor and the magistrate in Drama. Her face was swollen and she complained about the ill-treatment, but they did not care. From the police in Drama she was brought via a transit centre in Thessaloniki and a similar centre in Athens to Korydallos Prison, where she arrived on 30 June 2010. She immediately requested to be brought to the hospital, but this request was only fulfilled on 16 September 2010, i.e. two and a half months later. At that time, her visible injuries were gone, but the fracture of her cheekbone was diagnosed with an x-ray. There were, however, several women who could witness her swollen face when she was brought to Korydallos Prison. A female detainee was arrested on 25 June 2010 at Rhodos Island and brought to the police station of Rhodos. There she was interrogated from 7 pm to 2 am. She unsuccessfully demanded a lawyer and a telephone call. Although she was not physically assaulted, she was threatened with 15 years to life imprisonment if she would not cooperate and confess to drug trafficking. She stayed together with an Asian woman for 10 days in the women’s cell, and was only provided once a day with food. They brought her to the prosecutor and a magistrate without being defended by a lawyer and assisted by an 62