4 by a group of people reportedly linked to the ruling ZANU-PF party. Amnesty International interviewed several victims who reported they had been tortured in the surgery. Forensic medical experts experienced in documenting evidence of torture have also examined some of the victims. Their findings were consistent with the forms of torture described by the victims. Among other cases, X (not named for reasons of security) was abducted from a street 50 metres from the surgery while on his way home from work. He described how five persons, allegedly ZANU-PF supporters and war veterans, grabbed him by his arms and legs after demanding to know his name. The victim believes that he was abducted because his brother is involved with the MDC. He said that the attackers beat and kicked him in the street and squeezed his testicles. Inside the surgery they reportedly beat him further until he bled from the mouth and nose. According to his account, they only stopped when he feigned unconsciousness. They held him captive in the surgery for four days, during which time he was moved between various rooms as the torture was meted out. Among other tortures, they allegedly beat him with broom handles on his hands, back, buttocks and on the soles of his feet. He said that they threatened him with death by one of his tormentors, allegedly second in command, producing a knife and challenging anyone to slash his throat. Although he was not slashed with the knife, as one of the war veterans intervened saying that X was not active in politics, the torture continued. They reportedly forced him to put his index finger on the floor, and to run round and round very fast while keeping his finger on the floor, until he was dizzy. He said that he was undressed in the bathroom, his mouth bound with his shirt, and then his head was pushed into the toilet bowl while one of the torturers flushed the toilet. Some of them laughed and ululated. He felt that he was suffocating. ''That was the most extravagant torture night I experienced,'' he said. More than two weeks later after these events X's marks and wounds were still clear and raw to Amnesty International's delegates. In a second case, on 8 May, Y was abducted from a shopping centre near Dr Hunzvi's surgery. He alleged that groups of six people took turns to torture him, and that some 90 people altogether were involved. Y said that a group of women forcibly removed all his clothes. According to his account, his torturers connected two wires to the electricity and applied electric shocks to his arm pits and his genital area. A forensic medical examination confirmed that physical scars in the places where he said he was subjected to electric shock torture were consistent with his allegations. Reportedly, they also subjected him to other forms of torture including piercing his skin with metal bottle tops. He said that they forced him to raise his arms and battered his ribs with sticks and that they also beat the soles of his feet so that he could not walk with ease for two days. According to Y, his torturers demanded to know about the MDC - 'the big fishes, my position in the party and where the leaders live.'