A/HRC/29/23 defenders working to uphold the rights of LGBT persons, some of whom have been subjected to violence, threats and verbal denigration. 48 32. In the United States, recent government figures show that the number of biasmotivated incidents based on sexual orientation ranks second only to racist incidents among single-bias hate crimes.49 A Europe-wide survey of 93,000 LGBT persons conducted in 2013 for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found that a quarter of all respondents had been attacked or threatened with violence in the previous five years. 50 A survey conducted in 2012 by the non-governmental organization Stonewall in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland found that one in six LGBT respondents had experienced a hate crime or incident in the previous three years; of those, 75 per cent had not reported the experience to the police.51 33. Treaty bodies and special procedures continue to express concern at rhetoric used to incite homophobic and transphobic hatred and related violence. 52 Such language is used by some political and community leaders to promote negative stereotypes, stir up prejudice and harass particular individuals, especially during electoral periods. The High Commissioner has expressed concern at inflammatory rhetoric used in Belarus, the Gambia and Honduras.53 The Committee on the Rights of the Child has criticized statements by the Holy See as contributing to the stigmatization of, and violence against, LGBT adolescents and children raised by same-sex couples,54 and about the negative impact of hate speech on LGBT and intersex adults and children in Switzerland.55 D. Torture and ill-treatment 34. The Committee against Torture and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment have continued to express concerns at the torture and ill-treatment of LGBT persons in detention by or with the acquiescence of State officials.56 35. Reported cases include the arrest, beating and ill-treatment by police in Zimbabwe of 44 members of an LGBT organization.57 Sixteen gay and transgender individuals in the United States were allegedly subjected to solitary confinement, torture and ill-treatment, including sexual assault, while in detention in immigration facilities. 58 A woman was reportedly arrested in Bangladesh for being a lesbian, and subsequently beaten and raped by police while in custody.59 In Egypt, four people arrested on the basis of their alleged sexual 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 10 See A/HRC/25/55/Add.3, paras. 433-435, 480-482. Uniform Crime Reports, 2013 Hate Crime Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 2014 (available at www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013). EU LGBT Survey: Results at a Glance, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2013, p. 7. Homophobic Hate Crime: the Gay British Crime Survey 2013, Stonewall, 2013, pp. 116-117. See CCPR/C/UKR/CO/7, para. 10, A/67/357, para.75; see also European Court of Human Rights, application 1813/07, 9 May /2012. Navi Pillay, “Prejudice fuels the denial of rights for LGBT people”, Jakarta Post, 30 April 2014. See A/HRC/22/47/Add.1, para. 91. CRC/C/VAT/CO/2, para. 25. CRC/C/CHE/CO/2-4, para. 24. See A/HRC/19/61/Add.4, paras. 168, 172, CAT/C/KGZ/CO/2, para. 19. A/HRC/22/53/Add.4, para. 162. Ibid., para. 178. See CCPR/C/108/D/2149/2012), para. 2.2.