According to Amnesty International: "ALLEGED TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT BY MALIAN SECURITY FORCES [...] TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT Many detainees - including a child - told Amnesty International that they had been tortured or subjected to other cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment at the time of their arrest and transfer to Bamako. Some of them showed marks and scars – including on their backs and chests – to Amnesty International’s delegates. Several detainees told Amnesty International’s delegates that they had been beaten by Malian security forces several times during and after their arrests. [...] Another self-proclaimed member of the MUJAO who was arrested by the population in Gao on the 30 January 2013 and handed over to the gendarmerie, also said that he had had a part of his left ear cut by a gendarme. Amnesty International was able to see the scar on his ear. He alleged that he was subjected to electrical shocks at the gendarmerie station and fainted. After six days at the gendarmerie of Gao, he was transferred to Sévaré where he had his clothes torn off with a knife. He was detained there with a group of people and told Amnesty International that three out of ten detainees were naked. He was transferred by plane to Bamako. He reported that during the transfer the detainees were tied to one another and beaten up by the soldiers who walked on them. He stayed at the Camp I of the Gendarmerie in Bamako until the 6 March 2013 and went to the Direction générale de la sécurité d’État (DGSE, General Directorate of Public Security, known as the SE) twice for questioning. During these interrogations, he said he had to wear a balaclava, as well as the person supervising the interrogation. He alleged that he had also been subjected to electrical shocks. "" ^[+]