According to Amnesty International: "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. A man, who was arrested on the 11 February 2013 at the market in Bonni (between Douentza and Gossi) as he was doing grocery shopping, told Amnesty international’ delegation: « People saw I had money to buy groceries. They told me that if I did not give them money they would denounce me and say I was a MUJAO fighter. I refused and they beat me up and took me to the gendarmerie. They tied up my hands and my feet, and covered my eyes. The gendarmes hit me with a rubber stick, punched me and kicked me with their ranger shoes. I fainted and fell down. Then they beat me several times again and asked me whether I was from MUJAO, MNLA or Ansar Dine”." ^[+]