Case 22_49

22_49 interference 49. Turkish control. She states that she received some very violent blows to her body including a powerful punch in the abdomen. She was put into a room with only a small opening used as an entrance, with other Greek Cypriots who had been taking part in the demonstration. She was then transported by bus with other detainees to “Pavlides Garage”. She states that during her journey she was subjected to assaults, beatings and gestures of a sexual nature by the persons who detained her. The crowd outside the garage was swearing, shouting abuse and threats as well as throwing stones at the garage some of which came through the roof. She was not given any medical attention despite being badly hurt. She claims that she was singled out, being a lawyer and a spokesperson, to suffer particularly harsh and humiliating treatment at the garage. She alleges that she was interrogated in the garage. At one point in the early hours of the morning she states that after making a request to be allowed to sit on the grandstands in the garage the officers detaining her ordered her to sit on the floor in front of one of them between the iron bars that held the basket of the basketball in place and to stretch her legs over a small wall which was on the side of the entrance to the garage. She refused to do so and then she alleges that she was violently dragged to a car and then transported to Seray police station.