Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
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Humiliating and invasive body searches may constitute torture or ill-treatment, particularly for transgender detainees. In States where homosexuality is criminalized, men suspected of same-sex conduct are subject to non-consensual anal examinations intended to obtain physical evidence of homosexuality, a practice that is medically worthless and amounts to torture or ill-treatment (CAT/C/CR/29/4).
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment