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Nails 17. Fingernail and toenail mercury levels have also been used to measure the body burden of mercury. The extent to which finger and toenail levels correlate with external mercury exposure has not been established, however.

Another detainee, still not identified, was hospitalized after being severely tortured in detention: he is said to have had his limbs broken and his fingernails and toenails torn out. 6. FIDH believes that Indonesia is continuing to violate knowingly international instruments for the protection of human rights, and the terms of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which protects the inhabitants of occupied territories, in particular the provisions of article 31, stipulating that: "No physical or moral coercion shall be exercised against protected persons, in particular to obtain information from them or from third parties".

Methods typically include: beating a person that has first been hung from the ceiling or a tree; electrocution; pouring hot and cold water into the mouth and nostrils (in the summer or winter seasons respectively); inserting nails or needles under the fingernails or toenails or other sensitive parts of the body. Persons are also typically subjected to humiliating and abusive treatment during arrest.

Even the monks who had cleaned and dressed Rinpoche’s body said his finger and toenails had turned black; when they lifted the body, the back of his head felt hollow and unusually light.”

This included being severely beaten, being hung naked from the ceiling, having their toenails pulled out and being sexually assaulted. (...) Attiah were forcibly disappeared and held in solitary confinement for the first seven months of their detention, and were subjected to other forms of torture, including being beaten, being hung naked from the ceiling, having their toenails pulled out and being sexually assaulted as a means of forcing them to confess to being part of the Houthi movement.

Reported torture methods that have been employed against prisoners by government military or security officers since 1991 include: - Tying the prisoner with plastic strings around the upper arms pinned together behind the back, and leaving the victim tied up for several hours or days; - Tying prisoners in other ways, or hanging them up by ropes and then beatings on the soles of the feet; - Death threats, with guns held at the head; - Electric shocks; - Kicking and beating with guns, metal bars, sticks, and stones, whilst victim’s limbs are tied; - Carrying heavy rocks of 70-80 kg on their back whilst going up and down stairs for several hours; - Hanging 2-3 kg of weights on men’s testicles for hours at a time; - Castration; - Being made to lie naked under threat of being shot by guard if seen to move; - Removal of finger- and toenails; - Solitary confinement in “small dark rooms” 5.

He arrived there bearing clear signs of torture, including having all of his toenails removed. On the same day that he arrived at Dry Dock, the guards beat him for refusing to kiss one of the guards’ boots.2 AlArab and AlMalali had been convicted and sentenced to death in a mass trial alongside 58 other individuals on 31 January 2018.

He arrived there bearing clear signs of torture, including having all of his toenails removed. On the same day that he arrived at Dry Dock, the guards beat him for refusing to kiss one of the guards’ boots.