“Mohammed also spoke of cases of abuse, where detainees were tied up to walls, with dogs released to attack them,” Mhajne said.

Detainees were also beaten with clubs for “hours on end” and “beaten with pistols into their butts”.

In an interview with Al Araby TV following the press conference, Mhajne recounted a case Arab informed him of involving a 27-year-old detainee who was raped, forced to sleep on his stomach, attacked by police dogs “and then raped with a fire extinguisher and had the tube inserted into his butt”.

The extinguisher was then activated to release its contents into the man’s body, Mhajne said.