E/CN.4/2001/66 page 77 compulsory means against Nicola Miletić, who had disturbed the public order by playing too loud music and exceeding the working hours of the coffee-bar. He was warned repeatedly by the police and insulted the officers. He resisted and physical force was used against him, including means of restraint. When he complained about pains in his shoulders after he had been taken into custody, two police officers facilitated a medical examination in the ambulance of the Dubrovnik General Hospital. After the medical examination, a doctor informed the police officers that Nikola Miletić did not have any physical injuries, so he was returned to the police station. He was taken into detention at 1.15 a.m. on 29 October 1999 and released at 12.45 p.m. His father was informed about his arrest at 1.29 a.m. He refused to sign the official report on the detention. The official report on the use of compulsory means in this case was sent to the Ministry of the Interior, and a request to start misdemeanour proceedings against Nikola Miletić was submitted. On 16 November 1999, Nikola Miletić brought criminal charges against six members of the Special Police Unit on the basis of “maltreatment while performing duty or mandates”, attaching a medical certificate confirming that he had come to the ambulance on 29 October 1999 at 1.45 p.m. and then again at 3.10 p.m. the same day, and that he was slightly physically injured (struck on the head, right shoulder, back, neck and abdomen). Following this, the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office sent a letter on 23 November 1999 with a request for additional information with regard to this event to the First Police Station Dubrovnik, which sent a special report to the Prosecutor’s Office on the procedures used. The collected data did not confirm that maltreatment had occurred. At present, the Government has no feed-back information on the progress of this case. Nikola Miletić has contacted the news media to bring the police officers and the complete service into disrepute. The reports by the newspapers, the criminal charges brought and his allegations, especially regarding his having been handcuffed and given electric shocks, are not correct. 353. The police reportedly ill-treated several persons participating in annual demonstrations, on 9 May 2000 in Zagreb, organized by pressure groups which seek to change the name of the capital’s “Square of Croatian Great Men” (Trg hrvatskih velikana) back to its original name - “Square of the Victims of Fascism” (Trg zrtava fasizma). Skirmishes reportedly broke out between demonstrators and supporters of right-wing groups opposing the demonstration. Three demonstrators were taken to a nearby police station by plainclothes special police officers who allegedly kicked and beat them in the process, tore out tufts of hair from one individual and broke the spectacles of another. No investigations are believed to have been launched into these reports of ill-treatment. Furthermore, some 30 other demonstrators were apparently followed by a large group of right-wing supporters as they left the square. Out of fear for their safety the demonstrators chose to walk home via a street on which a police station is located. When some of their pursuers started throwing stones at them, police standing by in the porch of the police station reportedly refused to intervene. 354. The Government responded that due to the disturbing of the public peace and order, and due to the attack on a police officer on 9 May 2000 while securing the public gathering, compulsory means had been applied by police officers on six persons taken into custody. The Government provided further information on the following individuals. Three officers of the Special Police Unit used physical force against Dražen Bujas. However, no consequences arose from this. His allegations of ill-treatment were carefully examined and a written answer was sent