A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 and bland. They also say that they have no room to sleep and no light at all. They all affirm they have been beaten by CID officers. One said that he was beaten heavily, and that the CID officers quickly put ice on his swollen face since he had to go to court. They say they are treated like dogs. Shahzad Aslam, aged 26, from Pakistan, was arrested on 18 September 2010 for allegedly possessing a stolen cell phone. Upon arrest he was beaten in the neck and on the arms by 7 police officers and then brought to the police station. He was held in the small waiting room of the CID for 15 days. The first three days several officers regularly hit him in the neck, yelled and spit at him. He was not provided with food or water unless he paid for it. Then he was brought before a judge who dismissed the charges and transferred him to the regular police cells for administrative detention. He was a heart patient but was refused access to a doctor unless he would pay for it himself. A male detainee, from Pakistan, was arrested one month ago, brought before a judge who dismissed all charges, and is now held in administrative detention. He experienced no abuse during his arrest. He was refused access to a doctor but instead was just given painkillers by the police officers. He received no soap and could not use the telephone because he had no money to pay for it. Due to the frustration about his detention and the poor conditions he has cut himself before. M.A., aged 26, from Eritrea, was arrested without papers 3 days ago. The two police officers arresting him beat him and kicked him in the stomach for no apparent reason. The first day he had to stay at the CID in the fourth floor, and then he was transferred to an arrival cell outside the regular police cells with no direct access to the toilet or the shower. He could access the toilet whenever requesting it but had not been able to take a shower yet. He wanted to apply for asylum but has never managed due to the many applicants queuing at the Petrou Ralli offices. The officers at the police station rejected the responsibility to take up and forward his asylum claim. A male detainee, aged 18, from Afghanistan, was first detained and handcuffed (including at night) for ten days in the CID cell on the fourth floor of the facility with five to ten other persons. He waited one week to have a shower. The police treated him fine during the arrest. He was then taken to a cell on the first floor where he had been detained for 1 ½ months. There were sometimes up to 30 persons in the cell. He had access to a shower in this cell. There was one small window but no light, either natural or artificial in the cell. There was no doctor visiting and no medications available. He was initially arrested in Omonia Square for using drugs and then the police held him for not possessing valid documents. He had a lawyer visit him but the lawyer did nothing. A male detainee, aged 42, from Iraq, was initially held upstairs on the fourth floor for three days. He had been detained in the cell on the first floor of the facility for 36 days. He was detained for having no documentation. He contacted a lawyer, who came to visit one time, took the money and then he never saw him again. The air was stifling hot; he could not breathe. Akropolis Criminal Investigation Department, Athens Visited on 18 October 2010 On the information of the detainees of the second floor, the Special Rapporteur decided to visit the fourth floor of the building where the CID offices are, and discovered that detainees were also held there in a cell, which was actually a very small waiting room next to the CID offices. 57