questions”.30 [Emphasis added]. In a 2016 report, the CPT documented continued alleged electric shock torture. One person interviewed by the CPT’s delegation in the remand section of Banja Luka Prison “claimed that he had received several shocks from a hand-held electro-shock device with two contact points and had been handcuffed to the radiator in the duty room of Banja Luka Police Station overnight.”31[Emphasis added]. Italy In a 2016 report, Amnesty International (AI) highlighted the employment by police of electric shock batons at certain Italian “hotspot” centres where refugees are screened, identified and their asylum applications initially assessed.32 According to AI, electric shock weapons of any kind are not part of the official equipment of the Italian police, although legislation adopted in 2014 enabled the police to launch a testing phase, including through their distribution to a limited number of officers. However the AI report documents numerous cases of electric shock batons being used against refugees, particularly by police seeking to forcibly fingerprint detainees. Sometimes even children were subjected to such treatment. Djoka, a 16-year-old boy from Sudan arrived in Italy on 7 June 2016. He fled the conflict in Darfur, which killed his father, and hoped to join his brother in France. When he was disembarked in Sicily, he was taken to a police station and detained there. He told AI: “After three days… they took me to the ‘electricity room’. There were three policemen wearing uniforms, plus a woman without uniform … The police then asked me to give fingerprints. I refused. Then they gave me electricity with a stick, many times on the left leg, then on the right leg, chest and belly. I was too weak, I couldn’t resist and at that point they took both my hands and put them on the [fingerprint] machine. I couldn’t resist.”33 Ali, a 17-year-old boy from Darfur, Sudan, had a similar story. After refusing to give his fingerprints he was locked in a room in a police station near Bari: “The following day they opened the door, I ran towards the exit. The police ran after me and caught me. They put me on the floor. One put his foot on my hip to hold me down. I tried to get up, another one came and touched me with an electric stick on the left foot. I fainted. Then I started feeling pain on the groin – I can still feel it.”34 Russian Federation In a 2013 report, the CPT documented the alleged physical ill-treatment of remand prisoners by law enforcement officials in Moscow. According to the CPT, one prisoner “claimed that he was beaten (whilst handcuffed) by several law enforcement officials in one of the cells of Moscow City Court’s holding facility and then received more than ten electric shocks with stun batons.” 35 [Emphasis added]. In a second 2013 report detailing a CPT visit to the North Caucasian Region, the organisation documented the reported employment of electric shock torture against two individuals, including the use of a hand-held device on the hands, tongue and genitals.36 30 CPT (12 September 2013) op.cit., paragraph 14, i. CPT (5 July 2016) op.cit., paragraphs 13, (iv). 32 Amnesty International (October 2016) op.cit. 33 Amnesty International (October 2016) op.cit., p.18. 34 Amnesty International (October 2016) op.cit., p.18. 35 CPT (17 December 2013) op.cit., paragraph 21. 36 CPT (24 January 2013) op.cit., pp.14&16. 31 14