exceptions, physical pain caused by torture entails mental anguish, just as mental anguish is oftentimes accompanied by elements of physical pain. However, for illustration purposes, the report makes an attempt to distinguish physical and psychological torture and ill treatment. In the overwhelming majority of cases – 79.7% - torture had to do with causing physical pain to victims, while in 20.3% of cases it had to do with causing mental anguish. Diagram 18. Types of torture The analysis of statements made by respondents helped identifying how often various categories of public officials used torture and cruel treatment against those involved in criminal court proceedings and those taken into custody. The majority of torturers are to be found among officers of internal affairs bodies, with a lower number of SCNS officers and staff members of prosecution bodies and the State Drug Control Service. In his report the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Mr. Juan Méndez also stressed that police departments, temporary detention facilities and criminal investigation units under the MoI were most often mentioned as places of ill treatment.31 He named a significant inclination of Kyrgyzstan’s judicial system toward confessionary statements as the cause of the increasing number of torture used by criminal investigation officers.32 Diagram 19. Public officials resorting to torture From a monitoring group report: 31 32 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, para. 38. Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, para. 38. 54