Upon apprehension, officers reportedly ripped the respondent’s asylum seeker card into pieces and used racist slurs against him. In Paranesti PRDC, the respondent was denied access to medical attention on several occasions and reported that, on one occasion, he was taken to a nurse and was given an injection without being informed of the reason. After participating in a hunger strike, the respondent was taken by the authorities to a small cell and was held in isolation there, deprived of food and water, and subjected to verbal abuse by the authorities.