Herzegovina258, Greece259, Netherlands (Caribbean)260, Poland261, Turkey262, and the Ukraine263. 5.2.5.1.1. Illustrative cases Turkey Human Rights Watch documented the case of Eyüp Birinci, a teacher, who on 14 July 2016, was detained by police in Antalya on suspicion of being a member of the banned Gülen movement. Mr Birinci told Human Rights Watch how the police had blindfolded him and taken him to one of the upper floors of the police station: ‘My eyes were blindfolded. I felt there were three or four people in the room. But it was the police chief who detained me that spoke... “Tell us what you know, what’s your business in Antalya,” he said as they stripped me naked... The police chief who detained me and whose name I don’t know began to slap me in the face and eyes...They beat me on the soles of my feet, on my stomach, then squeezed my testicles, saying things like they’d castrate me... They made me lie face down and twisted my left and right arms behind me... Then they turned me on to my back, wet my feet and began to beat them. Then they beat both arms with the baton. They wet my neck and beat me there....They even put the baton in my mouth and rotated it....They made me stand up and they punched me with fists. They punched my stomach for several minutes, each time telling me to stand up straight.’264 Ukraine Amnesty International has highlighted the reported abductions of activists involved in the anti-government EuroMaydan protests of January 2014. For example, on 21 January 2014, activist Yury Verbytsky and a well-known journalist and EuroMaydan activist Igor Lutsenko were abducted by unidentified men at a hospital where they were seeking medical treatment. Igor Lutsenko was kept blindfolded and then dumped by his captors in a forest outside of Kyiv in freezing temperatures but managed to find help and is alive. He alleged that he had been badly beaten and otherwise ill-treated by his captors. Yury Verbytsky was found dead in the forest. His ribs were broken and there were traces of duct tape round his head.265 258 Human Rights Watch, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Investigate Police Violence Against Protesters, 21 February 2014. 259 CPT(1 March 2016) op.cit. 260 CPT, Report to the Government of the Netherlands on the visit to the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands carried out by the CPT from 12 to 22 May 2014, 25 August 2015. 261 CPT (25 June 2014) op.cit. 262 Human Rights Watch, A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture, October 2016. 263 CPT, Report to the Ukrainian Government on the visit to Ukraine carried out by the CPT from 9 to 16 September 2014, CPT/Inf (2015) 21, 29 April 2015, paragraph 20; Amnesty International, Abductions and Torture in Eastern Ukraine, EUR 50/034/2014, July 2014, p.8. 264 Human Rights Watch (October 2016) op.cit. 265 Amnesty International, (July 2014) op.cit, p.8. 52