E/CN.4/2003/24 page 23 Latino”, “whore” and “retard”, and struck her. She was taken to the Rambla Nova police station in the Ciutat Vella district before she was transferred, at her request, to hospital del Mar, in the Drassanes area, where she was issued a medical certificate. The four police officers who had taken her to the police station accused her of having assaulted one officer with a gas bomb. Marta Elena Arce claims that the bomb was in her pocket and went off when she was thrown to the ground. Marta Elena Arce states that she was detained at the police station until 11 p.m. the next day. She was then transferred to the La Verneda detention centre for foreigners, where she spent the night before being brought before a judge. She was released in the afternoon of the same day. According to the source, during her stay in the police station, Marta Arce had had to sleep on a mattress on the floor; she claims that, the first night, she had not been given a blanket and had not been allowed to telephone a lawyer or close friends or relatives. The Special Rapporteurs have been informed that she was not able to see a lawyer until 4 April. 12. Ibrahim Saad Llah, a Palestinian born in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, claims that he was assaulted by a National Police officer on 9 May 2001 on the premises of the police station where he had gone to apply for permission to travel from Ceuta to the Spanish mainland. He claims that two police officers beat him with truncheons while two others punched him. He was beaten on the side, the legs, the head and the chest and held at the police station for two days. According to the source, there was an attempt to expel him to Morocco but the Moroccan authorities refused to accept him. After this attempt, he was abandoned in the immediate vicinity of Sidi Embarek, in Los Rosales area. Passers-by took him to the Red Cross hospital, which drew up a medical report that was later submitted to the court. Ibrahim Saad Llah has lodged a complaint with the Ceuta court against four Spanish police officers. 13. Abdelhak Archani, a Moroccan national residing in the commune of Badalona in Barcelona, claims that, in July 2001, he was apprehended and beaten by three plainclothes police officers. According to the information received, the incident took place when the police officers sought to interrogate Abdelhak Archani about a stolen passport. They made him get into a vehicle that they stopped on the side of a motorway. They beat him with a truncheon and made racist insults. Abdelhak Archani was admitted to Holy Spirit hospital in Santa Coloma de Gramanet. The police officers later claimed that they had found him drunk on a public thoroughfare and that they had merely taken him home. The Special Rapporteurs have learned that a judicial inquiry into the incident has been opened, and they would like to be kept informed of the progress and the outcome of that procedure. 14. Nouredine Hathout, a Moroccan national managing an export company based in Granada, claims that he was insulted and assaulted by three police officers in Málaga on 24 November 2001. According to the information received by the Special Rapporteurs, Nouredine Hathout was waiting at the Málaga bus station when he saw an elderly Moroccan being manhandled by a young man. He claims that he and some others intervened but that the young man then identified himself as a police officer. Nouredine Hathout explained to his compatriot, in Arabic, that he was dealing with a police officer and should not put up any resistance. The man was taken to a local police station, from which he emerged a short while later claiming that he had been insulted and that another Moroccan, who did not speak Spanish, was still inside. Nouredine Hathout knocked at the door in order to offer his services as an interpreter but a police officer advised him not to interfere, pushed him and asked for his papers. When Nouredine Hathout protested, the officer grabbed him by the chest and pushed him