22 noise.” Ihsan shared his impression of the me to walk. When I arrived on Kos island, I was police as well, assaulted and physically beaten by the police, me "The way they talk and behave seems aggressive towards the detainees. They scream really loud, and they do not provide interpreting, so I am not and another guy. I told them I’m sick, I cannot handle this violence...The police were a problem for me. They were beating a pregnant woman on the sure what they are signing as they use body ground.” language to sign things.” As participants Ramy also shared that he was directly targeted explained, the police’s verbal aggression and harassed by a specific police officer: towards detained persons contributed to their “He is always targeting me individually, and all impression of a carceral environment. Jalal in particular shared, “The main problem is how they treat us, like we’ve killed someone.” the people know and ask me why he is targeting me. One day it was morning time, and all the night I couldn’t sleep. That police officer came to our Police also verbally threaten detained persons room, and he put a light in my eyes and targeted with a prolongation of detention with no legal me only while other people were sleeping. That basis for such threats. Specifically, Adil shared night I couldn’t sleep and stayed awake. I feel I am that a target for this police officer.” “We were only informed we will be in detention for iii. Broken phone cameras six months and if we won’t behave well that the Consistent with the November 2021 report, police can prolong our detention period to one police continue to ban phone cameras in the year.” Farouq also shared, “The police say six PRDC, and this policy was confirmed by the months is not a long time, and they are threatening police in a meeting with Equal Rights in the people.” summer of 2022 and again in December 2022. In addition to being verbally aggressive, some The police in the PRDC routinely refer to a participants also recalled that the police had specific circular that justifies this practice, been physically aggressive with detained however they have failed to produce it despite persons, a pattern of behaviour that more repeated requests from Equal Rights. participants shared in this year’s report The police maintain that they do not compared to the November 2021 report.59 For personally break people’s phone cameras, but example, Ameen and Haidar shared that after rather that they require detained persons to being handcuffed, break or deactivate the cameras themselves as “The officer was dragging us in the car, pushing us a precondition for keeping their phones in and was really mad for a reason.” detention. However, consistent with the In his interview, Jalal recounted a particularly disturbing experience: November 2021 report,60 several participants shared that the police do in fact personally break their phone cameras. Although “During my journey to Greece, I lost my participants were not asked about the subject medication and was very exhausted. I could barely of their phone cameras directly for this report, move when I arrived to Kos, and my brother helped 59 Detained and Forgotten, supra note 3, at 46. 60 Detained and Forgotten, supra note 3, at 46-47. ‘Still detained and forgotten’ – Update on Detention Policies, Practices, and Conditions on Kos 2022/23