40 GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON TORTURE: Law and Practice Mexican women African and Asian women UK immigrants Women known by Canadian authors Beatings to the head, stomach, thorax, legs, and ears; dragged by the hair; biting of face and neck; blindfolded Beatings, burnt, cut, and stabbed; tools used included weapons, razor blades, machetes, broken glass, belt buckle, metal rods, heated knives, boiling water, caustic liquid, sharpened wood sticks, and cigarettes Beatings to the head, ears, Sexualized torture: vaginal, oral, anal rapes with penis, fingers, with objects, firearms; group raped; breasts, buttocks, genitals groped; nipples pinched; forced kissing; masturbated on; forced to ingest torturers’ body fluids Raped numerous times; raped with implements, gun barrels, sticks, bottles, truncheons; anal bottle raped, forced to balance on the bottle; group raped; urinated and ejacu­ lated on and forced to ingest torturers’ body fluids; breasts bitten, burnt, cut, damage to reproductive organs, fistula; sexually transmitted infec­ tions, HIV+; sexual slavery Raped repeatedly, orally, vaginally, anally, with penis, fingers, objects, firearms; pseudo-necrophilic rapes when unconscious; urinated, ejaculated, defecated on; smeared with and forced to ingest torturers’ body flu­ ids; group raped; damage to reproductive organs, hysterec­ tomies and repairs; infections; breasts bitten, burnt, cut, punctured feet, whole body; burnt, cut, stabbed, pinched, needle pricks under fingernails; tools used included belts, weap­ ons, broken glass, burning wooden sticks, heated metal rod, heated spoon, hot light bulb, hot and ice cold water, pepper into eyes, cigarettes, whips, knives, pins, pliers; hair pulled; blindfolded; joints dislocated; tied down, hung, confined, caged; denied bath­ room facilities; forced to eat vomit and feces Bestiality with dogs, horses; forced to eat out of animal trough; forced to eat on all fours like a dog Electroshocks to genitals, legs Electroshocks, breast bound with wire and electroshocked Repetitive electroshocks to head, in vagina, and mouth Suffocated with a plastic bag placed over the head Suffocated with a plastic bag placed over the head Water tortured, head plunged into a bucket of water Water tortured, head held in a bucket of water, in sink, in bath tub, in stream, or lake