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For the purpose of investigating the complaints of ill-treatment concerning the foreigners in
question, a sworn Administrative examination was conducted that revealed the following:
- From the administrative examination of foreign detainees, both of those who claimed that
had been ill-treated, as well as of others who had remained and their readmission had not
been ordered, the complaints made with regard to ill-treatment by border guards were not
affirmed. Some of the above mentioned detainees attributed their inquiries to their being
banged against the inner walls of the body of the truck that transported them during the hot
pursuit and prior to their arrest (M.S., K.R., K.K., Ah.B.), while others to an attempted
escape from the place of detention in Venna on 28 or 29 August 2005, when they refused to
conform to the instructions of the border guards to get back into the holding areas. This
allegation, nevertheless, contradicts the forensic report drawn up by the Medical Doctor of
Thrace in relation to the time of the inflictions of the bodily injuries.
- According to the deposition made by three (3) of the persons who claimed that they had
been victims of ill-treatment, namely of H.S., A.H. A and A.B., their complaints lodged with
the Committee concerning their ill-treatment by police officers were made following a prior
joint consultation between them and with a view to the Committee’s interfering for their
being transported to Athens, where they had relatives and friends who would assist them in
their departure for another country of Europe.
- As far as complaints lodged about the ill-treatment of prisoners in the Border Guard
stations of Soufli, Tychero, Iasmos and Ferres, these were not reaffirmed in the depositions,
as there were neither information nor data that could be made use of.
Whereas from the so conducted administrative examination no liability has arisen in respect of
police officers or border guards, the case was placed on file in terms of disciplinary sanctions
imposed.
(3) Case of ill-treatment of foreign economic migrants at the Holding Facility for aliens
in Mytilini.
a) From 6 to 7 September 2005, members of the CPT delegation visited the Special Holding
Facility for Aliens in Mytilini, where they were made recipients of complaints by two (2)
economic immigrants residing in it, to the effect that in the beginning of August, a high
ranking police official ill-treated them (by blows with a stick and kicks).
b) In respect of the inquiry conducted into the case, a sworn Administrative Examination
was carried out, whereby the following ensued:
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The persons claiming that they had been the victims of ill-treatment, apart from the
fact that they were not referred to by name in the relevant document of the
Committee, were not to be found at the Facility during the time of the conduct of the
said inquiry, as the time of their stay in no case exceeded three months, a fact that
could not possibly allow their examination (the persons who stayed at the Detention
Centre the longest, first entered into it on 25 August 2005).
None of the foreigners that were held at the Facility made any mention of complaints
relating to the ill-treatment of any detained person by a police officer, nor something
of the sort ever came to the knowledge of law enforcement officials. The foreigners,