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Handling of Human Rights Violations [2003] KRNHRC 28 (1 March 2003)

The complainant filed a complaint with the Commission stating that he suffered cruel
acts by the police, such as beating with baseball bat, while he was investigated as a witness
of an illegal withdrawal of cash from Nonghyeop Bank in March 2003.
The Commission found that policemen handcuffed the complainant the house of the
complainant and forced his head against the floor and beat his buttocks and the back with
a baseball bat and perpetrated other cruel acts against him for about seven hours.

The Commission concluded that the policemen violated the Criminal Procedures Act while
seizing and searching the complainant's belongings. The Commission filed an accusation
against the policemen who led the cruel acts with the prosecutor and recommended that
other policemen who assisted in such unlawful acts be duly warned. The policeman in
question was prosecuted without physical restraint by the prosecutor, and the chief of the
police station warned the other four policemen according to the recommendation by the
Commission.