e~'H'~,AC H P R ., African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Human Rights our Collective Responsibility bitch and -slut used when referring to them, the complainant specifically stated that out of all protesters arrested and who were taken to the military prison on 10 March 2011, they were the only who were subjected to forced genital examinations together with other five, identified as unmarried.w 94. The Complainants submitted that the sexual humiliation manifesting repeated verbal abuse, electroshocks and beatings, dragging the Complainants by their headscarf, threats of beatings, electroshocks, and strip searches in full view of others, (which qualify the acts to be torturous) against them was deliberate to send a message to other women engaged in protests that they risk suffering the same fate if they engage in activities related to the protest movement. This included.f! 95. The Complainant also cited Curtis Francis Doebbler v .Sudan62 and African Commission, Media Rights Agenda v Nigeria63 and argued that the Commission does not explicitly distinguish between torture and ill-treatment in interpreting the scope of Article 5, but calls for as widely as possible interpretation to encompass the widest possible array of physical and mental abuses. They also cited Gabriel'Shumba v Zimbabuie+, and Sudan Human Rights Organisation & Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) v Sudan,65 with the position that Article 5 is aimed at the protection of both the dignity of the human person and the physical and mental integrity of the individual subject to Article . 1 of the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UN Torture Conventionj.w . 96. The Complainants submitted that the treatment inflicted on the Victims resulted in physical injuries and psychological trauma.s? The First Victim testified that following the ill-treatment at the museum and military prison she came -out as a wreckpsychologically, physically and emotionally and that her entire body had marks from 61 See, Section 0: Analysis of Articles 2 and 18 (3) Violations on the complainant Submission on Merit See, Paragraph 124 of the Submission on Merits 62 Communication 236/00, para.37 63 Communication No. 224/98, para 71 64 Communication 288/04, para.l43 65 Communications 279/03-296/05 para.156 66 See, Paragraph 124 and the referred notes thereat. 60 ::.-.,. " AfricanI Union "I