According to Amnesty International: "A number of interviewees claimed that they were tortured and detained by soldiers as revenge for the soldiers’ colleagues being killed by Boko Haram and as punishment for their alleged links with the armed group. Jusufu, aged 23, described his experience in November 2012 to Amnesty International: “I was eating with my wife and then all of a sudden, the soldiers came to the house, asked all of us to come out. … They started beating me and hitting me with sticks on my legs. They even beat my wife. They arrested everyone in the street, both male and female, and assembled all of us in the streets. They asked us if we didn’t know that a MOPOL [Mobile police officer] and a soldier had been killed. We said no…They said ‘you killed our colleague and you refused to tell us!’ and then they started beating us. They said ‘all of you are dead. We are going to kill all of you.’ They started beating us and asked us to take off our clothes. And then they asked us to roll on the floor. They then used their bayonet and knives to cut our backs. I saw one soldier cutting the back of six people close to me. Many of us were already bleeding because we got wounded by rolling on sharp stones and other objects on the floor. The soldiers then took us to Guantanamo. …We were about 57 in the cell. And then the soldier hit me with a stick. He said ‘you Boko Haram, why you’re hiding your face? Look at me! Are you Boko Haram?’ I said no. he hit me again on my head. …. They kept asking whether I was Boko Haram, I kept saying no. They’ll shout ‘liar!’ They asked me where I was when the MOPOL was killed, I told them I don’t know. They said you don’t know where you were? They started beating me harder. All five of them. They kicked me. They hit my head with a stick. They beat me on my back, my stomach, on my legs, everywhere they could lay their weapons on. I was just lying there. When they realized there was so much blood on the floor, they brought some bucket of cold water and poured it on me. It was very painful. All the wounds on my body started aching afresh. After they were satisfied, they tied my hands, which were already tied behind my back, to an iron hanging on the corner of the wall. I was half suspended and half touching the wall, not the floor. It was an extremely painful position.”" ^[+]