Examples of using Bata prison in English and their translations into Arabic
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They remained in hospital until September, when they were taken to Bata prison.
This is also the case with Bata prison, even though it is not in a presidential district.
During his next visit,he observed that a woman was being held in Bata prison for the same reason.
Instead of being sent to Bata prison, as he should have been, he is allegedly living as a guest in the home of the Deputy Inspector-General.
Malabo public prison has been repaired and modernized and Bata prison is being repaired.
Five of these were in pre-trial detention in Bata prison: one had been there since 23 January 2001; three since 9 February 2001; and one since 4 April 2001.
A number of cases of corporal punishment were reported to theSpecial Rapporteur in Malabo Black Beach and Bata prisons.
On 15 September theyare said to have been moved to the Bata prison, where they were allegedly held incommunicado and without medical assistance.
This is the situation, for example, of Francisco Obama Mañana, a farmer,who is being held in Bata prison for the murder of his wife.
In Bata prison, the Special Representative visited all parts of the building and, except for a padlocked room which he was told belonged to a prisoner working outside, he was able to have access to all facilities.
Three women named in another warrantdated 27 October 2000 were in Bata prison for adultery, which seems to be an offence in Equatorial Guinea.
The visits to Malabo and Bata prisons and the journey around the interior of mainland Equatorial Guinea from 18 to 21 May 1994 were essential features of the third official mission there.
CNDH, in its report already referred to and drawn up in October 1999, following its visits to detention centres, indicated that it hadnot met Mr. Mba Mendam in Bata prison and had been unable to obtain detailed information concerning his whereabouts.
The visit made on 19 May 1994 to Bata prison revealed that the situation of the 37 detainees was similar to what it had been at the time of the October 1993 visit and that there had been no improvements whatsoever.
On seeing the hands through the bars on 13 November 2001,the Special Representative decided to go and see whether there were in fact detainees behind the bars, as all the signs seemed to indicate, before going on to Bata prison.
The roofs in Bata prison have also been repaired, there are more beds, mattresses and space available for people, acceptable arrangements have been made to separate women and men and a suitable area has been set aside for religious worship.
The Special Rapporteur learned of just one case where habeas corpus was applied for, and it was effective since it enabled Mrs. Isabel ObonoEndamian, who had been detained in an unknown place, to be transferred to Bata prison, whence she was shortly released.
The Special Representative saw awarrant dated 2 February 2001 at Bata prison, by which the Bata district judge had ordered" the pre-trial detention of Ms. the legal spouse of Mr. for abandonment of the marital home".
In Bata prison, for example, order No 2111, by which the investigating judge in the court of first instance had committed an individual to pre-trial detention on 25 September 2001, was found to have been annotated by hand and duly signed, as follows:" Released by order of the Inspector-General of the Armed Forces. 25 September 2001".
The Special Representative informed the United Nations Commission on Human Rights last year that,despite being sentenced and instead of being sent to Bata prison, Mr. Mba Mendam was living as a guest in the home of the Deputy InspectorGeneral(E/CN.4/2000/40, para. 65).
On his visit to Bata prison, for example, the Special Representative was accompanied by the prison governor(who was at all times extremely courteous and whom the Special Representative had met on his previous visit) and by another person in civilian clothes who introduced himself as the" prison administrator".
Whereas physical conditions of detention in Black Beach and Evinayong prisons andin Bata police station were of a high standard, Bata prison and the remaining police and gendarmerie custody facilities were in urgent need of refurbishment in order to fulfil international minimum standards.
During his visit in May 1995, the Special Rapporteur was informed that on 16 December 1994, Juan Mongomo Eboro, who was one of the persons sentenced in connection with the events in the village of Kogo in 1994 for attacking a military post,and who had escaped from Bata prison and subsequently been recaptured, had once again been tried for escaping, sentenced to death by a court martial and shot next day.
The Special Representative saw with his own eyes anorder dated 23 January 2001 in Bata prison, signed by the Bata district judge, which read as follows, word for word:" I hereby request the Administrator of the public prison of this city to order seven prisoners to appear or, rather, to form a party to clean the building housing the Ministry of Justice and Worship, the District Court and the Bata District Court tomorrow, 24 January 2001, in anticipation of a visit to be made there shortly".
It was discovered almost by chance: the Special Representative andhis colleagues were being taken by the government representative to the Bata prison facilities, which are also on the gendarmerie premises, when he caught sight of some of the detainees ' hands through the bars of the cell, around 50 m. away.
On a positive note, it should be stressed that the number of prisoners is still small,both in Malabo public prison and in Bata public prison.
Members of the so-called Fuerza Democrática Republicana, a political party not so far recognized as such, complained to the mission that the journalist Sinecio Ngua Esono, together with Francisco Abeso Mba, Pelayo Ndong and Joaquin Mba,had been held in Bata public prison on political grounds since 27 August 1997.
It also requires the Government to order improvements in physical conditions in detention centres by building at least a private toilet and bathroom, with water for washing, in places where there is none(such as the police stations in Malabo and Bata and the prison in Bata), and improving existing facilities at Black Beach prison in Malabo, and also by providing enough beds for persons deprived of their liberty in these and other detention centres.
As to Bata public prison, the Special Rapporteur was unable to visit it on this occasion but he did receive reliable information about conditions there. Among this information is that contained in the above- mentioned report of the mission undertaken in June 1996 by the ACP Group, who visited this prison. .
He was then transferred to the prison of Bata on the mainland, where he allegedly was tortured for two days.