- 12 A third person alleged he was beaten during an interrogation in the juvenile department on the floor by three male officers and a woman four days prior to the delegation’s visit. He alleged that he was spat on, kicked in the genitals, slapped, punched and hit with a broom handle and a book on his head, upper body and buttocks. Upon examination by a medical member of the delegation he had pain in both shoulders, a violet-green bruise on the left eyelid; a blue-violetgreenish bruise on both buttocks (5 cm x 6 cm on left and 7 cm x 6 cm on right), with one darker elongated trace inside; he complained of earache, with a wind-like sound in his ear and an inability to hear. The condition of his left ear pointed to a rupture of the tympanic membrane, possibly caused by a severe blow to the ear. 3rd At Omonia police station one person alleged he was punched and beaten on his back, chest, arms and legs with batons by several policemen both upon arrest and in the police station, during the night prior to the delegation’s visit. A medical member of the delegation observed inter alia thin parallel linear reddish marks (up to 3 cm in length) on the front and lateral sides of the neck; a reddish-blue bruise (4 cm x 1 cm) on the chest, above the right mammilla; a reddish-blue bruise (3 cm x 1 cm), on the left shoulder; two parallel linear bruises, reddish-blue in colour (5 cm x 1 cm) in the middle of the under side of the right upper arm; two reddish-blue bruises (on the right side 3 cm in diameter and on the left side 6 cm x 2 cm) on the back, in the area around the shoulder blades; two parallel linear bruises of reddish-blue colour (5 cm x 1 cm) in the middle of the front and on the side of the upper right leg, as well as on the upper left leg. Another person alleged he was beaten with batons and punched during the night prior to the delegation’s visit. Upon examination by a medical member of the delegation he displayed a blue bruise on his left eyelid and scleral haemorrhage on his right eye; a blue bruise (3 cm x 1 cm) in the region of the left cheek-bone; swelling of the left side of the chin; several parallel linear reddish marks (up to 3 cm in length) on the left and front side of the neck; a few smaller blue bruises on the left shoulder and on the left part of the back; two parallel linear bruises of reddish-blue colour (5 cm x 1 cm) on the front side of the upper left leg, as well as on the same part of the right leg. One person met by the delegation alleged that while detained at Soufli border guard station, two days previously, his foot had been stamped on by a member of staff, he had been doused with cold water and subsequently forced to sit for some 13 hours overnight in front of an open window. Upon examination by a medical member of the delegation, the detainee displayed a swelling and bruising of the dorsum of the left foot. 14. In addition, in certain cases, of persons met who were still in police custody, the credibility of the allegations of ill-treatment was supported by the detained persons’ demeanour; a fear that they would be subjected to further ill-treatment if the police officials concerned learned a complaint had been made to the CPT’s delegation. It should be added that in the prisons visited the delegation heard numerous allegations of less recent instances of ill-treatment by the police in various parts of Greece. The delegation also heard allegations of ill-treatment by staff in the border guard stations of Tychero and Iasmos, which mainly concerned slaps and kicks.