- 14 A foreign national met in Korydallos Men’s Judicial Prison stated that he was apprehended by the police on 3 September 2011 after a chase and brought to the Kypseli Police Station. At the station, several officers wearing balaclavas allegedly brought him to the toilets, stripped him naked and proceeded to hose him with cold water. Subsequently, he claimed that his legs were tied together and blows with a baton were delivered to his feet, and that his penis was tied with a thread and repeatedly yanked. Further, he said that the officers insulted and laughed at him throughout the ordeal. His initial request to see a lawyer was denied. Moreover, in the course of the apprehension his leg had been fractured, yet the policemen apparently continued to kick him after he was immobilised. He was denied access to medical care during his stay in the police station and he was not properly screened upon admission to Korydallos Men’s Judicial Prison on 7 September 2011. However, nine days after he had sustained the injuries, on 12 September, he was admitted to the orthopaedic department of the General Hospital of Nikaia in Piraeus where he remained for one month. It should also be noted that his current lawyer stated that he had first seen his client some two days after the arrest and that he had observed that the face of his client was severely swollen and bruised at the time. Allegations of ill-treatment were brought to the attention of the judge deciding on his application for release but no follow-up action was taken. ii. as regards Omonia Police Station, the delegation met a detained person who displayed visible injuries, including a purplish bruise around his eye, allegedly as a result of being punched and kicked by crime inspectors in the corridor outside the cell on the third floor, on 12 April 2013. Another person claimed that on 21 March 2013, he had been slapped and punched by three officers from the Security Police Department, apparently to make him confess to a particular charge; he displayed several healing wounds and bruises around his left eyebrow and on his chin, which were consistent with his allegations. The delegation also met a detainee who alleged that he had been kicked and slapped by police officers the previous day, and who displayed reddish bruising on his cheek. An inmate interviewed at Larissa Prison alleged that, around 24 March 2013, he had been taken out of a cell on the third floor of the station, slapped, punched, kicked and subjected to blows with batons and a broomstick by several police officers; he also claimed that one officer had put his hands around his throat, pushed him up against the wall and spat in his face. When he requested to see the doctor he was apparently threatened with another beating, and he was not allowed to call a relative or his lawyer. His medical record at the prison stated that, on arrival, “he had injuries which he claimed were the result of beating by the police” and the record mentions he had “pain and mild sensitivity of the left anterior thoracic area”. When examined by one of the delegation’s medical members some three weeks later, he complained of pain in the region of three ribs, which is pronounced when inhaling deeply or sneezing. He also displayed a healing wound of 1.5 cm on the bridge of his nose. Further, several detainees described how in mid-March four policemen had subjected one person to punches and kicks in the detention area in front of them as a lesson not to make trouble. Another detained person was apparently subjected to blows with a baton for having banged on the door and was further punished by being forced to sleep on the floor outside the cells for a week; the detainees said that, as a result, this person had contracted a fever. However, it was only after numerous complaints by other detainees that he was finally taken to see a doctor.