A/HRC/43/CRP.7 that it would not help because they would shoot him dead soon.251 A fourth man told OHCHR that he was handcuffed to the wall and beaten on the head, legs, and hands with batons. 252 Electric shocks 54. Electric shocks were generated by TAs or stun guns and administered to the legs, feet, arms, ears, head and genitals. Some victims told OHCHR that perpetrators poured water on them to facilitate conductivity of electric shocks. 253 One detainee told OHCHR that perpetrators attached clamps to his ears and shocked him, which caused a spasm and shattered three of his teeth. The perpetrators repeatedly turned on the electricity when the victim was speaking, causing him to bite through his tongue several times. 254 Asphyxiation 55. Five detainees reported being subjected to asphyxiation. For example, one detainee was taped to a chair with her hands cuffed behind it. Her mouth was taped closed, and a bag was taped over her head, so she could not breathe.255 Another detainee told OHCHR that his torturers suffocated him with a plastic bag over his head while punching his chest. “They definitely knew where to hit. When I was already about to faint, they stopped the beating for a while to let me breath and recover, so that the beating could continue”, he said.256 A third detainee told OHCHR that perpetrators suffocated him with a plastic bag.257 Penetrating injuries 56. In one case, perpetrators pierced a detainee’s ear lobe with a pencil. 258 Another detainee told OHCHR that an ‘officer’ of the ‘ministry of state security’ cut his leg with a knife threatening to kill him, and then inflicted punches and a stun gun on the victim’s wound, causing severe pain.259 Sexual violence 57. Sexual violence was mostly used as part of torture by electric shocks when electric wires were attached to genitals or by subjecting detainees to forced nudity. 260 One detainee told OHCHR that officers of the ‘ministry of state security’ made him stand astride and kicked him in the genitals.261 Another detainee told OHCHR that he was stripped, chained to a chair and kicked in the chest.262 Mock executions 58. One of the 17 individuals interviewed reported being subjected to four mock executions in the premises of the ‘ministry of state security’. Each time, the perpetrators told him: “let’s go, now we’ll shoot you.” He was then blindfolded and taken out to the yard where they fired and reloaded a gun near his head.263 ‘Post-confession’ period of detention 59. In most cases documented by OHCHR, the torture or ill-treatment stopped once a person confessed in writing or on camera.264 For example, one detainee told OHCHR that 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 48 OHCHR interview, 5 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 3 January 2020. OHCHR interviews, 3 and 13 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 14 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 20 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 16 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 16 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 16 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 16 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 3 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 16 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 3 January 2020. OHCHR interview, 5 January 2020. OHCHR interviews, 3, 5, 13, 14 and 16 January 2020.