A/HRC/39/CRP.2 he was moved to a district police station and held there for one month. Now he is in prison. 420 236. The Mission received information that, in some instances, individuals, including children, who were transferred to recognised places of detention were still not afforded full procedural safeguards, including: • not being provided with information about the charges against them in a language which they understand;421 • being held incommunicado; and422 • being denied access to legal counsel until after their hearing. 423 237. The Mission received accounts of Tatmadaw soldiers or SaYaPa officers forcing victims to sign pre-written statements during detention. Victims reported different issues in relation to these statements, including not being aware of the contents of the written statement or document;424 the statements wrongly asserting the individual had not been subject to illtreatment;425 or the statements being admissions of guilt. 426 For example, one victim from a village in Kyaukme Township, Shan State, who was arrested in August 2017 and held for more than 24 hours, was made to sign a document with his thumb which stated that he was “the enemy”, was involved in political activities and would “not be involved with political activities in the future”.427 Detention in inhuman conditions 238. Victims consistently gave accounts of inhuman conditions in unofficial places of detention which could amount to ill-treatment428 including being held for periods: • in inadequate accommodation, including in the open air without bedding; 429 • without access to adequate sanitary facilities; 430 • without adequate food being provided, including being denied food, 431 receiving insufficient food or food of poor quality; 432 • without access to safe drinking water when needed, including being denied access to water entirely or being allowed only a limited amount or only water that is unsafe; 433 and • without access to health care, 434 in one account leading to death.435 239. For example, a male victim from a village in Puta-O Township, Kachin State, who was detained for six days in 2017 reported poor conditions and his friend dying in detention: I was arrested by the Tatmadaw during a church festival with nine other people. We had to carry rice between a military base and our village. We were given only a small portion of hard rice to eat each day and felt hungry all the time. We could only drink one cup of water per day and were not allowed to drink from the stream nearby. One 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 60 PI-022. V-055. PI-052 V-118. V-055, V-112. PI-046, PI-056. PI-044. PI-035, PI-052. PI-035. See this chapter, section A.3: Torture and other ill-treatment. DI-058, DI-060, PI-079, PI-095. DI-058, DI-060, PI-109. DI-060, PI-038, PI- 096. DI-058, DI-060, PI-019, PI-020, PI-044, PI-080, PI-083, PI-085, PI-092, PI-095. DI-060, PI-019, PI-020, PI-077, PI-083, PI-084, PI-085, PI-095. PI-035, PI-077, PI-080. PI-077.