Jackie Jones, Jeanne Sarson, and Linda MacDonald 41 African and Asian women UK immigrants Women known by Canadian authors Watched others or heard cries of others being tortured, including family members Rapes photographed; tortured and raped in front of others, family members, including children, or in public Rapes photographed; watched others being tortured, forced to participate in sexualized torture victimization of others including children; repetitively trafficked to like-minded group for sex­ ualized torture “parties”; pornographic images made as ‘teaching tool’, forced to harm or kill animals Impregnations, abortions, miscarriages from violent beatings and rapes Impregnations, abortions, lost pregnancies due to violent rapes Impregnations, violent abor­ tions perpetrated; forced to consume aborted tissue Locations where tortured: in their house, during arrest and detention, in a warehouse, a Navy base, and police installations Location where tortured: at home, in detention, in police custody, in the bush, in a graveyard Location where tortured: at home, homes of like-minded, warehouse, farm, woods, cab­ ins, basements, boats, plane, military base, church, motel, fire station, professional’s office, modelling agency Mexican women Although all of the women in the above chart may not have suffered every act of torture described, they did suffer acts of torture that caused severe pain and suffering—physical, sexu­ alized, and mental. Besides intent and purpose being gendered, other forms of multi-intersect­ ing discriminatory vulnerabilities were noted. The Mexican women were mostly young and of low income; many were single parents, and others were considered to be gender non-conform­ ing. Vulnerabilities existed for the Asian and African women who reported being raped when as young as six years old, through to the age of sixty-two. Moreover, the women were tortured on a mass scale, over a broad geographical area. The Asia and African women were mainly single, and some were traumatised by their loss of children who died from violence, starvation, and disease. For the majority of the women known to the Canadian authors, they suffered non-State torture victimization from birth or shortly thereafter that lasted for years. Many were in their early adult years before finding ways to escape, surviving over 23,000 rapes, for instance, in addition to being trafficked, prostituted, and exploited by the pornography industry (Sarson & MacDonald, 2016a). These kinds of repetitive rapes are considered torture (Fortin, 2008). Amnesty’s research on the Mexican women lasted eight months. The women from Asia and Africa sought services from the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture for six months. For the women known to the Canadian authors, contacts ranged from single disclosing testimonies to decades, which explains why the accounts of torture victimization are more detailed, due to the period of time some women had to disclose. Disclosures can arise spontaneously, years

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