A/HRC/33/55 101. Jabhat al-Nusra is reportedly holding detainees in makeshift prisons in Rif Damascus. One man, held in a basement in January 2016, described being beaten by Jabhat al-Nusra fighters until he lost consciousness. Other cellmates were hung from their wrists. Detainees were given little food and were denied medical treatment. 102. Civilians who fled or were released from ISIL-controlled areas provided accounts of the use of torture in ISIL detention centres in Raqqah and Aleppo. Women held in those centres reported hearing sounds of male detainees being severely beaten by prison guards. 103. ISIL publicly lashes and amputates civilians and fighters for infractions of the terrorist group’s regulations. Men and boys are lashed in a public square in Raqqah city for smoking cigarettes and for trading during prayer times. Women suffer lashings for not been adequately covered. Men and women are lashed for being in the company of members of the opposite sex from outside their families. Theft is punishable by amputation. E. Sexual violence 104. The trauma resulting from sexual violence, and the profound social stigma attached to being a victim, continue to deter female and male survivors from coming forward. Months, and often years, pass before a survivor may be willing to have her or his account documented. The consequent underreporting and delayed reporting of sexual violence has rendered any assessment of its magnitude challenging. The accounts below are representative of cases that have only recently been documented by the Commission as victims and witnesses have come forward during the reporting period. 105. Women have been raped by officials during interrogations in detention centres controlled by government intelligence agencies. One woman, held in a detention centre in Government-controlled Dayr az-Zawr in 2015, was brutally raped by the interrogating officer of the Military Intelligence Directorate. On another occasion, he doused her in water and shocked her with electrodes attached to her breasts. Another woman, detained in Branch 235 in 2014, stated that prison officers raped several of her cellmates. 106. In late 2011, government forces arrested relatives of a man suspected of being a member of an armed group. Those arrested included his 9-year-old daughter; a doctor who examined the girl concluded that she had been raped. The girl suffers from nightmares and has difficulties being separated from her mother. Another interviewee, raped by a government official during her detention, said: “I feel I have lost everything. I lost my job and my property. And I have lost my dignity.” 107. One woman held in detention in 2014 described the guards pinching female detainees and threatening them with rape as they were transferred from an intelligence agency in Aleppo to another in Homs. During interrogations, several female detainees reported being threatened with rape, being called whores and being questioned about their sexual history. 108. Male detainees are frequently subjected to sexual violence. Many stated that cellmates had been raped with objects and received electric shocks to their genitals. A man, held in an Air Force Intelligence branch in Hama in 2013, stated that cellmates had been raped with knives and other implements, which caused physical injuries. Another detainee, held in Dayr az-Zawr from mid-2011 to the spring of 2012, was stripped naked and hung by his wrists from the ceiling in a room with a female detainee, who was similarly naked and hung from her wrists. “We stood naked and humiliated in front of each other,” he said. 109. ISIL fighters have forcibly married Sunni women living in ISIL-controlled areas. Accounts have been received of ISIL fighters demanding women and girls in marriage, in circumstances where it would have been dangerous for the woman or her family to refuse. 16