Montenegro294, Netherlands295, Poland296, Portugal297, Russia298, Serbia299, Spain,300, Sweden301, Switzerland302, Turkey,303 and the Ukraine304. 6.2.1.1. Illustrative cases Bosnia and Herzegovina During a 2015 visit, the CPT delegation received repeated allegations of ill-treatment being used by police officers to extract confessions, and the means employed in several such instances included hand-held striking weapons.305 For example, one person alleged that after being arrested and taken to Bijeljina Police Station, five police officers inflicted repeated baton blows, kicks and punches on him and told him to confess.306 During the same visit, the CPT delegation also heard allegations of ill-treatment using batons in prison establishments. On 26 April 2015 in Banja Luka Prison, members of the prison’s intervention unit allegedly dragged a prisoner on remand from his cell and beat him with batons while he lay on the ground. After being beaten again on the ground floor, he was stripped of his clothing and placed in a padded cell wearing only his underwear for two days. The prison doctor recorded the following injuries in his medical file: “reddishness in the lower back and three parallel tram-line hematomas 6cm x 4cm in size”.307 Ukraine Ukrainian police have used batons abusively in the perpetration of numerous acts of torture and other ill-treatment, prior to and during the armed conflict within the country. The CPT has reported that rape with batons is one of the methods of “severe physical ill-treatment and/or torture” that has allegedly been inflicted on those deprived of their liberty in certain places of detention in Ukraine.308 On 17 June 2012, Mikhail Belikov was approached by police officers from Petrovskiy District police station in Donetsk for drinking in public. He was beaten before being taken to the Petrovskiy District sub-police station. While in police custody, a police officer allegedly raped Mr. Belikov with a police baton while three other officers held him down. He suffered serious internal injuries as a result and required a temporary colostomy.309 294 CPT (22 May 2014) op.cit. CPT (11 November 2016) op.cit., paragraph 85. 296 CPT (25 June 2014) op.cit., paragraph 16. 297 Amnesty International (23 February 2016) op.cit., p. 297. 298 Human Rights Watch, Russia: Investigate Police Use of Force Against Peaceful Protesters, 8 May 2012. 299 CPT (24 June 2016) op.cit., paragraph 46. 300 CPT (9 April 2015) op.cit., paragraph 51. 301 CPT (17 February 2016) op.cit., paragraphs 11 & 12. 302 CPT, Report to the Swiss Federal Counsel on the visit to Switzerland carried out by the CPT from 13 to 24 April 2015, 23 June 2016. 303 CPT, Report to the Turkish Government on the visit to Turkey carried out by the CPT from 9 to 21 June 2013, 15 January 2015, paragraphs 18 & 50; See also: Physicians for Human Rights, Contempt for Freedom: State Use of Tear Gas as a Weapon and Attacks on Medical Personnel in Turkey, September 2013, p. 14. 304 CPT (19 June 2017) op.cit., paragraph 15; CPT (13 January 2015) op.cit., pp.12-14, 16. 305 CPT (5 July 2016) op.cit. 306 CPT (5 July 2016) op.cit., paragraph 14. 307 CPT (5 July 2016) op.cit., paragraph 84. 308 CPT (29 April 2015) op.cit., paragraph35. 309 Amnesty International, Ukraine: Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee for the 108th session of the Human Rights Committee (8-26 July 2013), June 2013, , p. 6. 295 57