A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 Individual cases Group interview of 23 male detainees from Greece and Albania. They all complained about the overcrowding and mentioned that lifers should especially be put in smaller cells. There are fights due to the lack of beds for all, and some have to be three in one bed. The Albanians perceived that there is a discrimination against them relatively to jobs, and that Greeks have priority. They also said that Albanians do not have the right to go on leave, and therefore cannot go to agricultural prisons. Since in the island the water is not drinkable, the detainees complained that they have to buy water since no water is supplied to them except the tap water. The Government, however, informed that Chios detention centre is equipped with two water tanks with a total capcity of 16 tonnes, which, it said, is adequate for detainees’ water needs. The detainees also complained about the limited activities provided to them, and said there are no workshops, woodwork, school or a gym, but only some books. A male detainee, aged 21, Greek, grew up in Chios and lived in Athens for three years to study. He was arrested in February 2010 after a bank robbery by 4 or 5 officers, who handcuffed him and beat him with their hands. They brought him to Chios Police Station in a specific room to the left, next to the office of the Chief. 10 to 15 officers came in and beat him by shifts during 8 hours. He was handcuffed in the back, and they beat him all over the body, his face included, with sticks, gun butts and hands. This happened again several times during an entire week, and he spent days and nights in that cell without seeing a doctor. His request to see a lawyer was denied as well. After a week, he was brought to the prosecutor, with the face totally swollen, but did not dare to say anything since 5 police officers were next to him. After the hearing, he went back to the police station for two more days, and was then brought to the prison. Triantafilos Kyriazis, aged 29, is an uneducated young man with serious psychiatric problems who was forcefully arrested in Samos on suspicion of having set fire to the forest. He signed a document which he could not read after the fire brigade coerced him to plead guilty. He was accompanied by Georgios Mitsos, aged 31, who told most of the story as the younger man had difficulties to speak. They had asked for a psychiatric investigation but the court in Samos had refused on 20 August 2010. All of them were beaten by the police in Samos in a special police room used for beatings. Then they were transferred to Chios Prison. Although there were no obvious conditions and there was neither time for a complete and thorough psychiatric evaluation, the psychiatric problems were evident according to the forensic expert who examined him. Issouf Auror suffered from diabetes and was in need of special treatment which he did receive but, according to his opinion, not in sufficient quantity.. Paleohoris Panayiotis, aged 29, was released on 31 July 2010 after having spent three and a half years in prison. On 7 October 2010 he went with his girlfriend to Samos, where he was arrested by the police on suspicion of possession and possible trafficking of drugs. During the night from 9 to 10 October, he was beaten by 3 police officers (2 are named Costas and Thomas) with a black iron baton all over his body. The beatings lasted for 10 minutes, and after 2 hours interruption again for 5 minutes. They only found 0,5 g heroine with his girlfriend but nothing on him. His girlfriend was not allowed to visit him. During the forensic assessment performed by the medical forensic expert no traumatic lesions were found that could corroborate the allegations of ill-treatment, but of course they could have disappeared due to the time past since the alleged beatings. Goudas Omiros, aged 39, has been using drugs for 21 years. He was going to be released soon and wished to be transferred to a drug rehabilitation centre where he could get methadone treatment. In Korydallos, he did receive methadone, but not here. His case was 43