IN LEBANON, PROTESTERS REPORTED SEEING SECURITY AND MILITARY FORCES SHOOTING RUBBER BULLETS DIRECTLY INTO THE CROWD AT CHEST LEVEL AND FROM CLOSE RANGE, INDICATING THAT THEY WERE SHOOTING TO HARM. 2.1.3 ELECTRIC-SHOCK PROJECTILE WEAPONS While electric shock projectile weapons (commonly known as tasers after a leading brand), can play a legitimate law enforcement role in specific situations when used as stand-off weapons in place of firearms, but in direct contact (“drive-stun”) mode they effectively become inherently abusive direct contact electric shock weapons. REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS On 9 September 2020, Javier Ordoñez was stopped by police near his home Bogotá, Colombia, for allegedly violating the selective isolation rules established in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The officers pinned him to the ground and administered repeated electric shocks to his body for approximately five minutes using a USA-manufactured Axon Taser X2. Javier Ordoñez, who was heavily restrained and posing no threat to the officers, repeatedly pleaded with them to stop, as did witnesses who were filming the incident a few metres away. He died in the hospital hours later as a result of the blunt trauma injuries. Handwritten protest notes alluding to police abuse during the third day of unrest sparked by the killing of Javier Ordoñez by the police of Bogota on 11 September 2020 in Bogotá, Colombia. (Photo by Diego Cuevas/Vizzor Image/Getty Images) ENDING THE TORTURE TRADE THE PATH TO GLOBAL CONTROLS ON THE ‘TOOLS OF TORTURE’ Amnesty International | Omega Research Foundation 19