Complementary techniques to detect physical violence that leaves no marks, such as analysing blood or urine or taking X-ray photos, are never used. Suffocation in the bathtub, or by covering the head with a plastic bag or blanket. Electric shocks in sensitive parts of the body. Forced to remain naked. Blows with the hand, fists or objects.
Specific treatment is meted out to women detainees because of their sex.
In these cases, aggressions, humiliations, indignities and insults are of an essentially sexual nature. Abuse and torture are designed to break the detainee's personality as a woman. So the great majority of the accusations made by women who have been tortured refer to molestation, introduction of foreign bodies in the vagina, threats or rape, etc. Regarding the conditions of detention, the Committee recommends that the necessary provisions be adopted for prisoners in detention centres to be officially recognised, and for their names and places of detention to be entered in registers available to all interested persons, including relatives and friends. Regarding detention centres, the Committee recommends that hour and time of all interrogations should be registered together with the names of those present, and that this register should also be available for legal or administrative purposes.