framework of the mentioned trainings.208 The monitoring carried out by the Special Preventive Group showed that the quality of photos taken was still problematic. In addition, one of the doctors was assisted by non-medical staff of a temporary detention isolator, which constitutes the violation of medical confidentiality. 3.3. Ill-treatment During monitoring, the Special Preventive Group received a number of reports of disproportionate, apparently excessive use of force by police officers during detention, as well as alleged torture and other ill-treatment after detention.209 For example:  After detention, patrol police officers pulled the person into a police car and were periodically hitting him in his face for several minutes. After being left alone in the car for some time, the detainee opened the door from the inside and tried to escape, but police officers made him fall to the ground and started to beat him. They were hitting and kicking the handcuffed detainee in his head, on his sides and all over the body.  Officers of Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Police Department, before formally arresting a person, took the latter to the Police Department and handcuffed him in one of the chiefs’s rooms. Four officers entered the room and told the person to admit to murder and, without waiting for an answer, three of them made him fall to the floor and started to beat him (by kicking and hitting him). Then they put a cellophane over his head to make it difficult for him to breathe and continued to beat him for about 10-15 minutes in such a state. He was also threatened that his relative would be arrested if he did not plead guilty. The detainee then agreed to testify and signed the pre-prepared document without reading it.  One of the persons, before being arrested, was taken to the Vani District Division. In a few minutes, four police officers entered the room and started to abuse him. One of the officers pressed his foot hard on the detainee’s genitals. Then he was thrown to the floor and beaten. He was requested to plead guilty. Then he was dragged to another room and was forced to look at dead person’ photos in the police officer’s phone. One of the police officers, while demanding admission of guilt, slapped him with his hands in both of his temples simultaneously. 208 Namely: On June 12-15, 2019, 15 participants were trained on injury documentation, and from October 28 to November 1, 15 more participants were trained on the same issue. The Ministry's reply reads that in 2020, the trained trainers will gradually train doctors on the rules of photographing and keeping photographs, in accordance with the instructions. 209 As a result of the examination, the Special Preventive Group received a total of 13 complaints from 38 respondents about alleged torture and other ill-treatment by the police. 78

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