A/HRC/7/3/Add.4 page 28 B. Medium Custody Cell No. 2: pretrial detainees 14. Benjamin Saro, aged 24, an artist, Benue State. On 19 January 2001, he was arrested in a police raid, and charged with conspiracy and armed robbery. He reports that he was beaten with black wooden batons and cable wires, and money was demanded from him by the police. In the more than six years he has been in Kuje Prison awaiting trial, he reports that his case has been brought before the court only to be adjourned more than 100 times. In the prison he was beaten several times with a wooden and a plastic stick as a disciplinary measure. His next meeting with his lawyer is expected to be on 6 March 2007. 15. Sunday Ofukwu, aged 37, Delta State. Detained in Kuje Prison since 2003, he is awaiting trial for homicide. His case has been subjected to over 60 adjournments, typically because no witnesses were presented. He reports that he was interrogated in a 5 x 5 m cell in the basement of Force CID, Garki. He is next expected to appear in court on 14 March 2007. 16. O.D., aged 17, student, Imo State. He is awaiting trial in Kuje Prison for one month. Seven months earlier, he was arrested and detained incommunicado at Force CID, Garki, for six months on suspicion of illegal firearms possession. He was beaten with an iron rod and slapped on the ear by CID officers in order to extract a confession. He did not receive any medical treatment, despite continuing complaints of pain in his ear. He has no lawyer and has had no contact with his family for seven months. He was last brought to court on 28 February 2007. C. Maximum Custody Cell: convicted prisoners 17. Austin Udeme, aged 43, an economist, Akwa Ibom State. In May 2006, he was arrested in Abuja by police on suspicion of financial crimes. He was detained for two weeks in Maitama Police Station. Over the course of one week, between 8.30 p.m. and midnight, after the senior officers had left, he was interrogated by an IPO in the first floor room. He was beaten with a wooden baton and the butt of a gun while he was handcuffed; cabled with electrical wire; and flogged with strips of rubber. After two weeks he was taken to the detention centre in the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Awolowo Road, Lagos. He was detained there for five months; nine days of which were spent in the Military Hospital in Lagos as a result of the beatings he sustained. He was later released, but rearrested and brought to Kuje Prison on 1 November 2006, where he is awaiting trial. He reports that he was not subjected to ill-treatment in Kuje Prison; he is generally better treated than other pretrial detainees because he has money. Because of his poor health he is able to stay in the cell with the convicts, who enjoy significantly better conditions and less overcrowding than pretrial detainees; he is on the self-feeding programme. 18. Abdulahi Ibrahim, aged 44, Kano State. He has been awaiting trial since January 2007 in Kuje Prison. On 11 December 2006, he was arrested and taken to Force CID, Garki, Abuja on suspicion of financial crimes. Until 23 December, he was detained incommunicado. On one occasion, in a room on the second floor of the CID building, between 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m., he was tortured on the orders of two police officers, one male and one female: his limbs were wrapped with strips of rubber starting from the extremities in order to restrict circulation; and his arms and legs were tied behind his back, and he was suspended from a metal bar under his arms for about two hours. At 4.30 p.m. he was presented with a paper to write a statement,