From a monitoring group report: “They were hanging me by the hands using a rope every day, for three days in a row, from 28 till 30 April 2012, I was hanging for 12 hours each day.”40 From a monitoring group report: “They tied me to the chair with handcuffs and were using an electric shock baton.”41 From a monitoring group report: “On 24 September, in the morning, six DDI officers took me to Sosnovka, and were beating me from the morning till 3 o’clock at night; they were putting a plastic bag on my head, strangling me and kicking me on the kidneys, legs, heels and the head. They threatened to insert a leg of the chair into my anus.”42 With a view to reconstruct the full picture of torture practices by law enforcement officers, the project team attempted to monitor the violation of the right to freedom from torture among suspects and those charged with committing crimes during the various stages of detention, that is:  at the moment of actual arrest and between the moment of actual detention and placement in a temporary detention facility;  during detention in a temporary detention facility;  when taken out of TDFs;  during detention in pre-trial detention facilities;  when taken out of PDFs. In addition, the project team studied separately cases of torture against those placed in the reception centres under internal affairs bodies for serving administrative punishment in the form of administrative detention and those placed in these institutions because of no fixed abode or documents, and also at various stages of detention:  at the moment of actual detention and between the moment of actual detention and placement in a reception centre;  during detention in a reception centre;  when taken out of a reception centre. As was mentioned above, the following number of persons was covered by the monitoring study within the project:  756 persons in TDFs under internal affairs bodies;  157 persons in PDFs under the SSEP;  139 persons in reception centres under internal affairs bodies. The analysis of questionnaires that came as a result of interviews with those suspected of and charged with committing offences has demonstrated that every fourth respondent (25.4%) placed in TDFs under internal affairs bodies claimed that torture was used against them at the moment of actual detention before they were placed in a temporary detention facility as criminal suspects. Twice as many respondents (59.2%) among those placed in PDFs under the SSEP claimed that torture was used against them during the same period, i.e. between the moment of actual detention and placement in a temporary detention facility. The simple comparison of these figures seems to confirm that while in temporary detention facilities those suspected of and charged with committing offences are afraid to report torture, because they are in fear of retaliation by police officers. 40 Monitoring group report, No. Р15-7. Monitoring group report, No. 7-3/1. 42 Monitoring group report, No. 1-2/43. 41 56

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