The new batons, approved by the Home Office, did not have a higher level of impact than the old truncheons.

Watch that baton.

He's using a billy, too.

The nightstick, that was old dependable.

Come on, get out. Don't forget I got a big blackjack here...

A forensic medical certificate revealed traumas, a broken right arm and traces of truncheon marks on the back.

Some monks were reportedly injured as a result of the use of batons.

The police proceeded to do so, using batons and branches from trees which were lying on the roadside.

At City police station he was allegedly kicked and beaten with sticks by about 20 officers.

Policemen mercilessly beat down the escapees with wooden swords.

The secretary ordered the police to give him 60 blows for insubordination and that was duly done.

Scuffles also broke out later in the day with police using their batons to contain the fighting.

The baton was needed after Hidayet Secil pushed an officer against the window, breaking the glass.

The detainees were reportedly taken to Mahendra police club, where police allegedly destroyed the walking sticks of the blind persons.

Then they continued punching and beating him with their nightsticks and the metal bar.

Border policemen then started swinging clubs, trying to push back the protesters.

The methods of ill treatment and torture reported included beatings with fists, police clubs, or other wooden or metal clubs striking the victim s head against the wall, floor or automobile and application of electric shocks.

His torture was said to include having a stick with chili powder inserted into his anus and beatings with sticks until he lost consciousness.

He was then arrested and taken to the local police station, where he was allegedly beaten with a truncheon, kicked and punched.

2.10 It is submitted that warders are normally armed only with batons but that there is an armoury just inside the gate lodge of the prison.

One of the police officers then pulled out his truncheon and allegedly started beating the men on their legs and backs.

Tayfun Kirs was allegedly subjected to electric shocks and beaten on the feet and back with truncheons.

This had provoked the use of physical force by the police to unblock the road with the use of clubs.

A squad of Security Police armed with electric truncheons intercepted the monks and placed them under arrest.

536. Brian Douglas and Stafford Soloman, reportedly arrested by police in south London on 3 May 1995 for possession of a knife, CS gas and cannabis, were allegedly beaten with 55 centimetre acrylic batons recently introduced by the police to replace wooden batons.

This ill treatment reportedly continued outside the police station, where a group of special police beat the man with truncheons.

At the police station he is said to have been beaten repeatedly with a stick and threatened with electric shocks.

Cho Yoon joo was allegedly kicked and beaten with police batons and shields after she had fallen down while trying to elude the police.

After the beatings, which allegedly included being hit with batons, an iron pipe and a metal detector, the author was refused the medical treatment he had requested.

281. Bouzckri El Mautrofi, a Tunisian national, was arrested in August 1994 by officers of the Spotorno municipal police and taken to the police station, where he was allegedly beaten with a truncheon.

The deaths were allegedly caused by blows to the head administered by rapid intervention police, military forces and prison guards wielding clubs, baseball bats and sticks with nails.

It was said that the most common forms of ill treatment were repeated slapping, kicking, punching and beating with a truncheon.

On 10 April 1995 he and a number of other prisoners in his ward were allegedly beaten with sticks and truncheons by gendarmes and wardens, as a result of which he sustained two cracked ribs.

Sahhaydar was said to have been beaten with fists and batons and a gag was allegedly put over his mouth.

During interrogation by police officers, he was reportedly shown sticks, razor blades and pins.

During his detention at the Mattinata police station, he was allegedly beaten, in particular with truncheons, on the head, arms, legs and other parts.

Many of the students were allegedly beaten with batons or kicked by police in the residential area around the gate, including inside some residences.

The Miranda State Police allegedly arrived and severely beat the students, mainly using peinillas (truncheons), released tear gas bombs on the premises and took the students to police headquarters.

The abuse reported included beatings with fists, boots, electric shock batons, clubs, chains, rubber hosing, boxing gloves or a metal rod with a ball attached to its end (beech) and beatings on the soles of the feet, sometimes with electric batons (falaka). Detained children who were held at police stations were said frequently to be held without beds, blankets and sometimes without food or use of toilets.

On 24 March 1997, in Velika Kladusa, a Bosniak man was beaten on his palms with batons by two police officers.

U Myo Thant, a local reporter, and Shigefumi Takasuka, a Japanese reporter, both working for the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, were allegedly beaten repeatedly on the head with wooden clubs and truncheons by police during student demonstrations in Yangon in the beginning of December.

While they were detained, they were reportedly subjected to sessions of 50 blows with rubber truncheons, morning and afternoon.

After that, he was reportedly suspended from a railing by handcuffs and in that position was said to have been beaten on the feet with a truncheon.

Rifat Onurcan was allegedly stripped, subjected to electric shocks, beaten with truncheons on the hands and feet and sprayed with cold water.

At Ankara police Headquarters they were allegedly subjected to torture, including hanging by the arms, electric shocks, beating and sexual assault with a truncheon.