Stop-Torture-Report

much she had to be taken to hospital. She’d been hit with the butt of and AK47
rifle and it knocked out two of her teeth.”
(Witness 89, speaking in 2015)
“My wife was questioned about my whereabouts on three occasions; the
second time they beat her so much she was hospitalised. My wife and child had
to move. I haven’t spoken to my wife recently for her own safety – only to my
uncle - whom I last spoke to in mid-2014.”
(Witness 82, speaking in 2015)
Couples typically found themselves unable to discuss their ordeals with one
another, the abuse creating a vast gulf in otherwise loving marriages.
“About one month later they came back looking for me and when I was not
there they abducted my wife. She did not know where they took her. My wife
later told me that she was ill-treated and beaten and raped during the
interrogation by the CID. About two hours after the abduction CID brought her
home and dropped her off and left. I was hiding outside the house but I could
see her being released. Once they left, I went into the house and saw my wife. I
saw that she was very upset and near collapsing. She was wearing a dress. She
took off the dress and I saw many scratch marks and bite marks on her hands,
breasts, arms, shoulders and back. She was bleeding from some of the wounds.
She told me that she had been raped. I asked her how many times but she did
not answer other than saying that she was raped by three CID men. I took her
to the XXX hospital immediately. They took her into intensive care right away.
The local police did not come. When I asked my wife for other details she told
me that she did not want to talk about it anymore. She has not spoken of this
since.”
(Witness 77 speaking in 2015)
While compiling this report, we received evidence that the wife of this witness
cited above had been called to report to the local army camp again – this was
after the change of government in January 2015.
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