The Special Rapporteur also came across other forms of torture and ill-treatment including death threats, beating with truncheons, beating with the butt of a rifle, beating on the soles of the feet with truncheons and rubber hoses, kicking, hitting in the windpipe, holding detainees upside down and beating the soles of their feet, stamping on detainees' handcuffs to break the skin, inflicting non-lethal gunshot wounds, forcing detainees to beat other detainees, withholding food, verbal abuse, sexual insults, leaving detainees handcuffed in uncomfortable positions for long periods of time, denial of medical treatment and attempted gang rape.