title: Segunda Esquadra
text: # Segunda Esquadra
  
  The Segunda Esquadra is the main police station of Bissau, the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
  
  ## Conditions
  
  On 7 October 2008 several human rights violations were verified by the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau. They consisted of inadequate facilities and lack of minimum living standards; lack of water and food. Several recommendations were made, these included: the adoption of mechanisms for the provision of water and food and the closure of underground detention cells.
  
  ## Notable detainees
  
  * Marcelino Lopes Cabral, former Defence Minister.
  * Zinha Vaz, member of the National People's Assembly.
  