A/HRC/40/CRP.1 facilities, food consists invariably of ugali and beans. Drinking water is obtained from the toilet tap either in the cell or at the end of the hall. There is a drug dispensary in the Blue House compound and one of the offices is used as a medical facility; however, medical treatment reportedly remained inadequate. One detainee observed: “there was no real diagnostic equipment there. Someone […] was assigned as a doctor there, but he had nothing to offer us. I even wonder whether he was a true doctor or not because the medicine he gave us was all wrong.” NSS Riverside Facility The NSS Riverside facility in Juba is located behind the immigration office, near the water plant and prison along the Nile River. The facility includes cells along a corridor which are approximately one metre by two metres often holding four detainees which is overcrowded given the amount of space. Other larger cells reportedly held up to 40 men. The cells at Riverside were described as excruciatingly hot, not only because of outside temperatures, but also due to overcrowding and the lack of ventilation. One witness described that “it was so hot and dirty that I started developing sores on my skin and my hair began to fall out. Over time, my skin also started turning a pale white colour.”417 Detainees are provided with food once a day in the afternoon and meals consist of very small portions of posho (stiff maize porridge) and beans. There is a tap in the cells to wash with and drink from. Detainees rarely benefit from recreational activities and one witness recalled being let out into the yard once in the year he was detained there. There is no proper medical attention at the Riverside facility despite there being outbreaks of malaria, given the facility’s location by the river. Some detainees resort to chewing bark from the Neem tree, while one witness described the medical attention he received: I visited the doctor at NSS Riverside Facility [multiple] times when I experienced weakness, dizziness and body pains but I was never diagnosed with any illness. There was no medical facility there, but there was a man who claimed he was a medical doctor. I really wondered whether he was a doctor though because he never performed examinations, but just distributed the same types of medication like Paracetamol, Panadol, Metrozole, Prophenin and other antibiotic capsules regardless of our medical conditions.418 NSS Training Centre in Luri The South Sudan Human Rights Commission (SSHRC) published a report in 2018 detailing cases of at least 29 people illegally detained in inhuman conditions and tortured at the NSS Luri training facility, west of Juba in June and July 2018.419 Detainees were reportedly held in extremely hot isolation cells with no toilets and only allowed out twice a day to relieve themselves. Others held at the facility were confined in cells measuring three by five metres holding more than 20 people with no beds or linens. 420 The Commission received information about five detainees being assaulted at Luri and transferred to the NSS Blue House detention facility. However, further investigations are necessary. The Commission notes with deep concern that when a CTSAMVM monitoring and investigation team attempted to visit the location on 18 December 2018, they were restricted from accessing it and were detained there for more than four hours during which time the team was physically assaulted, blindfolded, handcuffed, kicked, robbed, and stripped of their clothing, including the female member who was stripped completely naked. The team’s driver was threatened with death. 421 417 Witness 995, ERN 101998-102013. Witness 995, ERN 101998-102013. 419 South Sudan Human Rights Commission, A Situational Report on the National Security: Torture, Arbitrary Arrest, and State Fear, 2018. 420 South Sudan Human Rights Commission, A Situational Report on the National Security: Torture, Arbitrary Arrest, and State Fear, 2018. 421 CTSAMVM, Technical Committee Sixth Meeting Minutes, Addis Ababa, 18-19 December 2018. 418 61