Fifteen-year-old Ghulam S., who has been caught a number of times by port police officers attempting to hide in trucks, reported, Once they caught me inside the port. That was two months ago at 4 a.m. I tried to find a place to hide inside a truck. They came with a car and I didn’t see them arrive. Four of them in uniforms came from different sides. Jabar was among them. They forced me to lie flat on the ground with my arms stretched out. One guy pressed my head down with his boot… then he called the others to kick me and they all kicked me. They kicked me one after the other for about five minutes. Then they tied my hands on the back and took me to the railway line. They were still the four of them. Jabar pulled out his gun. He loaded the gun held it to my head and said ‘I will kill you.’ He pulled the trigger but the gun was empty. I saw that they took out the bullets but they didn’t realize that I had seen it. Afterwards they asked me how old I was. I said I was 14. They all started laughing. Then they told me to leave and run fast. They came running after me and shouted to scare me.… I couldn’t lie on my back because of the beating. It hurt so badly. My friends took care of me.95 Sixteen-year-old Jafar F. told us how he was subjected to ill-treatment jointly with two other boys by a group of four port police officers, among them ‘Jabar’: They arrested me. First they threw my bag into the sea and then [us]. They took us out and beat us. I was thrown inside the sea, taken out, and beaten, thrown into the water again, taken out, and beaten again. They were four police officers. That was one month ago…. The other boys were [name withheld] and [name withheld]. [Name withheld] is so young, he is 15, [name withheld] is 15 or 16.96 95 Human Rights Watch interview with Ghulam S., Athens, June 5, 2008. 96 Human Rights Watch interview with Jafar F., Patras, June 8, 2008. Left to Survive 34