Every fifth respondent (20.5%) held in TDFs was examined with clothes on. In 16.9% of cases, during medical examination doctors or medical assistants confined themselves to simply asking questions. Stripping to the waist and asking questions took place in 23.5% of cases. In 6.6% of cases the doctor issued a certificate without examination or asking any questions. Only in 12.3% of cases did medical workers carry out full examination and asked detainees question. From a monitoring group report: “Medical examination was not carried out. The doctor issued a certificate without examining me or asking anything.”107 As reported by the respondents in the overwhelming majority of cases medical examination is not carried after detainees are taken out of temporary detention facilities for investigation activities. Medical examinations were not carried out with respect to 82.7% of persons in detention upon every return to the TDF. Notably, in such cases medical examinations of detainees were carried out not by a medical worker, but by duty officers in the TDF. Signs of torture This causes even greater concern in light of the information presented above according to which 11.6% of respondents placed in TDFs and 38.8% of respondents placed in PDFs reported that they were subjected to torture when they were taken outside the facility. As reported by detainees, there were cases when police officers were beating them after medical examination was carried out and a doctor’s certificate on the state of health was received. From a monitoring group report: “On 14 June 2012, I was taken to a hospital for medical examination, and then, after we were out of the hospital, three operative officers (one of them was named Erzat, I do not know the other two, but I’ll recognize them if I see them) took me to the City Interior Department and beat me up. They were beating me from 10 a.m. till 3 o’clock at night. One of them was beating me on the legs with a club and the other two were punching and kicking me on the body and the head. They hurt my eye very badly. On 22 June I left a complaint with the duty officer and on 1 July I met with the prosecutor.”108 Of respondents placed in PDFs, 17.2% stated that medical examinations were not carried out upon placement in the institution. In all remaining cases (82.8%), medical examination of those admitted to a PDF was done by a PDF doctor. Diagram 33. Medical examination upon placement in PDFs 107 108 Monitoring group reports, No. 1-5/30, 1-5/31, 1-5/32. Monitoring group reports, No. 3-2/3. 71