A/HRC/43/CRP.7 once he had made a confession, the beatings stopped.265 Another detainee, after having agreed to confess, was brought to an ‘operative’, who recorded his ‘confession’. 266 60. Several detainees, however, were tortured or ill-treated after they confessed. For example, one detainee told OHCHR that during his detention in the ‘ministry of state security’, after he signed confession papers, unknown men placed a plastic bag over his head and took him upstairs, where five people beat him for no apparent reason. 267 61. After obtaining confessions, ‘investigators’ of the ‘ministry of state security’ continued to manage these ‘cases’, including additional ‘investigatory’ actions. Several detainees told OHCHR that after their ‘preventive arrest’ was over, they were brought to the ‘court’ several times for extensions of their detention.268 62. In the majority of cases, after detainees agreed to confess they were transferred from the premises of the ‘ministry of state security’ to the Luhansk SIZO, either directly or via the Luhansk IVS, where they spent one or several days. 265 266 267 268 OHCHR interview, 16 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 5 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 14 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 5 January 2020. 49