The conditions of conducting interviews with detainees described earlier when police officers and
other detainees were present during the meeting serve as yet another factor restraining victims of
torture from revealing their true story.
After their transfer to pre-trial detention facilities, which report to another body and to which
operative officers have a restricted access, victims of torture feel relatively safer and become brave
enough to recount those illegal methods that were used against them.
Table 10.
Torture reports by respondents held in TDFs and PDFs
torture reports
time period
2
at the moment of actual detention and between
actual detention and placement in a TDF
during detention in a TDF
3
when taken out of a TDF
1
TDFs
PDFs
192 (25.4%)
93 (59.2%)
44 (5.8%)
41 (26.1%)
62 (11.6%)
40 (38.8%)
This conclusion is also confirmed by other comparative data presented in the diagram below. The
number of torture reports by persons held in PDFs is much higher than the number of torture reports
by those placed in TDFs under internal affairs bodies.
Diagram 21.
Percentage of torture reports before and during detention in TDFs
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