E/CN.4/2003/24 page 36 55. Andreas Kalamiotis, a 21-year-old Roma, was reportedly arrested and beaten by police officers on 15 June 2001 in Pefkakia, Agia Pefkakia region. According to the information received, he was listening to music with some friends at his house when at around 2 a.m. a police officer requested them to turn the music off. One of the officers allegedly pointed his gun at him and threatened to shoot him. He is reported to have been subsequently handcuffed and arrested. It is reported that as he was barefoot his wife tried to fetch him a pair of shoes but was not allowed to do so. He was allegedly dragged to a police car and beaten with the hands and with truncheons. It is alleged that he was kicked after falling on the ground. He is believed to have been beaten in the car as well and to have been taken out of it and beaten again. He was allegedly interrogated about who had allegedly fired with a carbine. He was reportedly taken to a police station where he was allegedly insulted and threatened by a police officer. According to the information received, when he asked for some water to drink he was told to take some from the toilet and was given proper water only half an hour later. On the following day he was reportedly taken to the police headquarters in Athens in order to take some pictures of him. It is alleged that when he asked to have his handcuffs removed in order to be able to sit down properly he was insulted and threatened again. He is reported to have been subsequently brought before a public prosecutor and accused of resisting arrest and of insulting and threatening the police authorities. The Special Rapporteurs have been informed that he went to the forensic service in Aghias Anapafseos Street, where he was allegedly told that in order to be examined by a forensic expert he had first to press charges or submit a complaint to the police station of Agia Paraskevi. Andreas Kalamiotis is believed to have avoided filing a complaint for fear of retaliation. 56. Theodore Stefanou, a 16-year-old Roma boy from Patras, was reportedly beaten by a police officer in Argostoli on 4 August 2001. According to the information received, two or three police officers went and looked for him in a truck in which he was sleeping during his stay in Argostoli but did not find him since he was outside. It is reported that when Theodore Stefanou learnt that the truck had been searched, he went to the police station. There he was reportedly questioned about the theft of an important sum of money from a kiosk. The boy is believed to have been punched and slapped in the face for 15 minutes by a policeman (whose name is known to the Special Rapporteurs) and in the presence of two other officers, one of whom is thought to be the Commander of the Argostoli police station. It is alleged that he was then taken handcuffed to his truck and subsequently brought back to the police station where he was reportedly interrogated and beaten again. He is reported to have been released after the owner of the kiosk stated that he did not see him around his kiosk at the time of the theft. The Special Rapporteurs have been informed that he subsequently went to a hospital and that according to a medical report, he was found to be suffering from a head injury caused by beating received 12 hours earlier, a slight weakness in focusing, swelling and sensitivity on the ridge of his nose and a small frontal left bruise. It is reported that on 7 August 2001 he went to the Prosecutor’s Office in order to press charges against the Commander of the Argostoli police station. According to the information received, four other Roma relatives, Nikos Theodoropoulos, aged 18, Nikos Theodoropoulos, George Theodoropoulos and Vasilis Theodoropoulos were arrested and taken to the same police station in connection with relation to the same alleged theft. Nikos Theodoropoulos was reportedly taken to a room where the police commander and another officer allegedly interrogated, beat, punched and slapped him and stepped with their boots on his almost naked feet. Nikos Theodoropoulos is reported to have been kept in custody and to have been woken up at 4 a.m. to record an official deposition. He