A/HRC/16/52/Add.5 the food, for which he was beaten with a rubber truncheon on his head which caused a bleeding wound. Andrew Kopa, aged 32, from Central Province. In mid-February 2010, Mr. Kopa sneaked into the premises of a mine, with the hope to find some gold. His intrusion was discovered by the police who shot him in the knee while fleeing. However, Mr. Kopa managed to escape. A few days later, he was arrested by the police on the basis of a tip-off from an informant. Since his arrest approximately three months before, he had not seen any lawyer, been to court, nor received any medical treatment for the bullet which was still inside his foot. Mr. Kopa reported that an attempted escape of two detainees on 21 April resulted in physical abuse of all detainees held at the station. A large group of police officers from another police station had gone from cell to cell and beat the detainees with whips, timber sticks, fan belts and baseball bats, and kicked them with their boots. He informed the Special Rapporteur of beatings at the front section of the station. Furthermore, detainees were exposed to regular verbal abuse by the guards. Family members who want to visit detainees are harassed by the officers and regularly sent away. J. K., aged 17, was arrested in relation to a murder case on 1 April, at Barioba Badagau secondary school in Port Moresby, where he was a 10th grade student. The arresting officers handcuffed him behind his back and put him in a police van, where they started to whip him with a copper wire and a fan belt, beat him with a gun butt on his head, and kicked him with their boots. He was further threatened to be killed and was insulted for his Goilala origin. The abuse lasted throughout the transfer from the school to Boroko Police Station. His upper body displayed clear traces from the whippings, above his eyebrow he had an about five cm long cut. All the traumatic evidences were absolutely compatible with the allegations and could not have an accidental origin according to medical forensic expert, being clearly due to beatings. J.K. complained about pain in his right jaw, making it impossible for him to chew any meal on that side. J.K. had not yet been before a court. He repeatedly informed the authorities in Boroko that he was a juvenile. Since his arrest, his family had not been able to visit him due to the lack of financial means to travel to Port Moresby. Rehabilitation Centre for People with Disabilities, Port Moresby Visited on 16 May 2010 Individual cases The Special Rapporteur was received by the Director, Braun Kapi, who sits himself in a wheelchair and is one of the most outspoken human rights defenders in Papua New Guinea. Marava Genaboyo, aged around 58, was hit by a truck on 3 June 1988. A police officer who saw the scene called an ambulance. She was brought to Port Moresby General Hospital. Doctors made X-rays but instead of having her leg rest, they put it on traction, and this way pulled her ligaments out. When they realised that they stopped it, but harm had been done. She had to be operated, and a doctor from Brisbane who was visiting promised to send for her operations the necessary pieces. When the doctors received the material some time later, they mistakenly used it on someone else. They then refused to order new pieces and she stayed in hospital until 1989. She was in and out until 2005, but was not reoperated and although she complained to the doctor who had made the medical mistake that he had spoiled her leg, he did not react. The office of the Public Solicitor fought for her and obtained reparation for an amount of 73’000 kinas from the Motor Vehicle Insurance Trust (MVIT). This sum was given in once and she quickly ran out of it. Now she is in a wheelchair, unable to move, and rests most of the day in her bed. She has no State support and the doctor who harmed her is still practicing. 29