When one of the central figures of the protests, a Syrian activist, was allowed to cross the border legally in the night from the 3rd to the 4th of March 2016, the Macedonian police shut the door behind him and, according to an eyewitness, charged towards him and at least one other refugee – person Y – present at the scene. First, one officer hit person X in the face. Then, different police officers beat his legs and dragged him behind the official containers, where, according to his own account, he was flogged with sticks whilst naked. Person Y was brutalised with electro shocks on his head, amongst other places. Person X was able to see how his friend repeatedly flew up in the air because of the electro shocks. In the course of the 20 minutes torture session, the police took all of person X’s papers. Person X was...
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