-5- With respect to the outcome of administrative investigations regarding cases of ill-treatment of foreign economic migrants in the special holding facilities of Venna and Peplos, as well as in the Border Police stations of Souflion, Tychero, Iasmos and Ferres that are set out in the Committee’s report (paragraph 20): a. The Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) of the Council of Europe, in the period from 3 through 6 September 2005, visited the special holding facilities for alien economic migrants of Venna in the Rodopi region and those of Peplos in the Evros Prefecture. It also visited the holding areas of the Border Police stations of Iasmos, Tychero and Ferres. On 4 September 2005, during its visit to the special holding facility of Venna, the Committee intimated to the Police Directorate of Rodopi complaints concerning the illtreatment of some out of the 92 overall detainees by Border Guards and asked that they be transferred to another place in order to avoid further ill-treatment. 11 Iraqi nationals were allegedly referred to as having been ill-treated. The aforementioned persons have been examined the following day by the Head of the Forensic Medical Service of Thrace. From the examination it followed that six (6) of them, namely M.S., K.R., H.M., K.K. and S.A., did not bear any injuries, whereas the other five (5), namely Ma.S., A.S., H.S., S.D. and A.B., bore slight bodily injuries (of fair color) that were occasioned by a cutting instrument, with the possible date of the wounds’ infliction being twenty (20) to twenty five (25) days approximately before examination. The first bore contusive ecchymosis on the right and left scapular area, the second contusive ecchymosis on the right anterior thigh, the third contusive ecchymosis on the abdominal (epigastric) area, the fourth contusive ecchymosis on the right anterior brachial area, while the fifth contusive ecchymosis on the right scapular area. the aforecited foreign individuals, together with other 56 of their compatriots, had illegally entered the country; their apprehension was effected on 22 August 2005, after a hot pursuit of the truck that transported them to a rural, full of irrigation canals, area of Chrysoupoli-Kavala, was carried out. b. In the Committee’s initial report, the following ascertainments are mentioned, among other things. (1) The Venna holding facility for aliens. 11 persons were examined by the medical members of the CPT’s delegation and all displayed injuries were, according to the allegations of the individuals that made the complaints, the result of ill-treatment inflicted by border guards (by means of punches, kicks and/or the use of a police baton). (2) Border guard stations of Soufli, Tychero, Iasmos and Ferres: The following complaints were made to the Committee but without however, citing the Services’ involved. - a detained person with a bandaged leg was ill-treated by a police officer application of a technique including dousing with cold water and enforced stay for 13 hours in front of an open window.