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485. By letter dated 16 September 2004, the Special Rapporteur notified the Government that he had received allegations concerning Tony Atkinson, a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran of British origin. According to the allegations received, on 30 June 2003, he was apprehended after he tried to escape from the Ježevo Reception Centre for Foreigners and was beaten by guards, pushed against a wall and kicked. He sustained bruises on his left knee, right elbow and right shoulder, and was subsequently treated at a hospital in Dugo Selo.
486. By letter dated 3 December 2004, the Government informed that on 30 June 2003,
Tony Atkinson attempted to escape from the Centre with a group of foreign citizens by
forcibly breaking into one of the empty rooms on the upper floor of the Centre, cutting and
bending a metal bar on the window, and climbing down to the ground using bed-sheets joined
together. The policewoman of the outdoor security manage to prevent him from escaping by
using the standard procedure of elbow grip on his right arm, as he was vigorously resisting,. A
doctor from the Community Health Centre in Dugo Selo came for a medical examination, and
she noted that the policewoman sustained light physical injuries. Tony Atkinson complained
about pain in the right elbow and was examined at the Reception Centre, the Community
Health Centre, and then at the Dubrava Clinical Hospital, where no injuries were found. The
use of physical force was found to have been lawful and justified. On 2 January 2004, he was
released from the Centre and did not file a formal complaint to the Centre.
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This report has been published by Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights on July 27, 2005.