• applying electric shocks to a half-naked and wet person, beating him, putting a hood over his head and burning him with lit cigarettes;65 • holding a person’s head in water until the point of drowning;66 • rape;67 • tying up and beating all over the body until loss of consciousness; hanging upside down, lacerating, pulling out nails with pincers, burning with cigarettes, breaking legs and fingers;68 and • a “Palestinian hanging”, which involved the detainee being stripped naked with his arms tied together behind his back and suspended by his arms.69 Interrogators also use psychological ill-treatment in order to compel detainees to provide information out of fear. Examples of such psychological ill-treatment are: • mock burials and mock executions;70 • threat of rape;71 • threats of removal of body parts;72 and • death threats.73 Acts that involve the ill-treatment of third parties can still constitute torture of the detainee. For example, in Khomidova v Tajikistan the HRC found that the detainee had been subject to ‘psychological torture’. The authorities set fire to the detainee’s house, forced his wife and 64 Khomidova v Tajikistan, Communication No. 1117/2002: Tajikistan. 25/08/2004. CCPR/C/81/D/1117/2002 at [2.5] and [6.2]. 65 IACHR Case 10.574, Report No. 5/94, Lovato Rivera (El Salvador), 1 February 1994. 66 IACHR Case 9274, Resolution No. 11/84, Roslik (Uruguay), 3 October 1984. 67 IACHR Case 10.970, Report No. 5/96, Raque Martín de Mejía (Peru), 1 March 1996. 68 Mulezi v Democratic Republic of Congo, Communication No. 962/2001: Democratic Republic of Congo. 23/07/2004. CCPR/C/81/D/962/2001 at [2.4]. 69 Aksoy v Turkey, judgment of ECHR, 18 December 1996. 70 See for example IACHR Case 7823, Report No 32/82, Solanoa (Bolivia), 8 March 1982. 71 Abad v Spain, Communication No. 59/1996: Spain. 14/05/98. CAT/C/20/D/59/1996 at [8.3]. 72 IACHR Case 7824, Resolution No 33/82, Barrera (Bolivia), 8 March 1982. 73 IACHR Case 10.508, Report No 25/94, Lissardi & Rossi (Guatemala), 22 September 1994. 76