Police are looking into a claim a teenage prisoner was assaulted after he refused to disclose whether his cell mates were taking drugs. Chan Chi-lung, 18, said an officer beat him, kicked him for 10 minutes and then forced him to crouch and sat on his back.

Chan, a secondary four dropout and drug user, said the assault took place in Pik Uk Prison, Sai Kung, where he was on remand pending sentencing after pleading guilty to stealing methadone from a Tuen Mun government clinic.

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