Ismail F.’s wounds © 2007 Human Rights Watch Other Cases of Abuse by State Agents Several migrant children (and adults) told us that Greek border guards beat and kicked them after they were intercepted in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross into Greece on boats.103 Seventeen-year-old Abdul G. remembered the precise date when he was intercepted off the coast of Lesvos: That was on April 24, 2008…. Four coastguard police were on the coastguard boat. It was about 10 meters long. Maybe the color of their uniform was blue, but I’m not sure. I couldn’t recognize the color at night. When the police took us on their ship they searched our pockets and threw our clothes into the water…. One person, maybe he was the captain, didn’t beat us. Two others beat us. The third beat us a little. I thought the first person was the captain because he was standing in the cabin. They slapped me two or three times and kicked me one or two times. Because I was underage, they beat me less. They beat the other men with the handle of their 103 See also Human Rights Watch, Greece – Stuck in a Revolving Door, pp. 32-33, 42-45 and Pro Asyl, “The truth may be bitter but it must be told,” pp. 10-11. 37 Human Rights Watch December 2008