A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 A male detainee from Tunisia has been here for three days. He was heavily beaten by CID officers. The forensic expert said that his story is corroborated by the fresh and large scars on his face, skull and fingers. The traumatic lesions were totally compatible with the allegation presented. He could not see a doctor. He also complains that he received no food at all, and could not take a shower. He showed to the Special Rapporteur that he can drink from a pipe that is falling from the roof, on the wall. He is very afraid and does not dare to speak much. In the middle of the interview, he is roughly asked to go to court by the officers and leaves. Korydallos Men’s Prison, Athens Visited on 18 October 2010 The Special Rapporteur was received by the Prison Director Prison Director Mr. Zannides Korydallos Prison is the biggest prison in Greece. It was designed for 800 prisoners but holds presently 2256 plus 20 new arrivals. It is divided into 6 different buildings. Blocks A, B, C and D are built in the same way: 3 floors of 40 single cells each, i.e. 120 prisoners per bloc. Presently each cell, built for one detainee, holds up to 4 of them. Blocks E and F were added later. Block A is presently used mostly for Greeks, Bloc B for drug offenders, Blocks C and D for foreigners. Persons of the same nationality are put together in the same cells. A part of Block C is dedicated to vulnerable people. Block E is for detainees from other prisons who are brought before a court and for migrants in administrative detention. Block F is for people who are held for debt to the Greek State and for special categories, such as police officers, prison guards and people fearing for their lives. The disciplinary cells are between Blocks C and D, but are now used as normal cells because of overcrowding. From 8 to 11 am, the cell doors are open in most blocks and detainees go to the outside yard but cannot mix with prisoners from other blocks. Lunch is from 11 to noon, and from 12 to 3.45 pm the cell doors are closed. From 3.45pm until sunset the detainees can go again to the yard. Those in the punishment cells are allowed one hour each in the morning and in the evening out of the cells. The vulnerable people unit in Block C is constantly locked down because of an escape in 2008. The detainees held there can therefore not go out at all. There are jobs for a total of 600 prisoners, and presently 550 have work. Most detainees are in pre-trial detention. Any new detainee must have an initial medical screening. In 2010, they found injuries from beatings by the police, but no further action was taken. There is a special complaints procedure against prison guards, and the prosecutor can be directly contacted, even by anonymous letter. The Forensic Expert visited the Korydallos Psychiatric Prison Hospital. He reported to the Special Rapporteur that the injecting drug users (IDU) do not receive substitute treatment or specific medical attention. According to the information received, Korydallos does provide methadone and the forensic expert observed the kind of substitution therapeutics that were available. On Saturday 16 October, there was a serious incident in Block C. Fights broke out between different ethnic groups, in particular Iraqi Kurds and Algerians. A number of detainees and guards were injured, and some had to be brought to the hospital. According to detainees the fight really sparked with the general frustration about the conditions of detention and the judicial system. As a consequence, all prisoners in the 2nd and 3rd floor are locked down. When the Special Rapporteur visited Block C, prisoners were extremely agitated. Shouted from inside the cells and started to light fires both outside and inside the building. 59