- 82 - 220. The Court concludes that the physical and mental violence suffered by the eleven women constituted stereotypical and discriminatory treatment in violation of the general prohibition of discrimination contained in Article 1(1) of the Convention. The Court also recalls that the State acknowledged the violation of Article 24 of the Convention. B.4 Conclusion 221. Based on all the preceding considerations, the Court concludes that the State failed to comply with its obligations: (i) to adopt domestic legal provisions to regulate the use of force adequately; (ii) to train and educate its law enforcement personnel with regard to the standards and principles for the protection of human rights in the management and use of force, and (iii) to establish appropriate mechanisms to adequately control the legitimacy of the use of force. In addition to non-compliance with these obligations before and during the deployment of the use of force, in the instant case, the State failed to comply with its obligations to respect and to ensure the rights of the victims during the operations in which the police agents deployed a totally excessive use of force. In addition, owing to the absence of any conduct by the women that made the use of force against them necessary, as well as the sexual nature of the violence used, the use of force against the eleven women victims in this case was not even legitimate. 222. Additionally, the Court determined that: (i) the eleven women suffered sexual violence, consisting of verbal and physical abuse, with sexual connotations and allusions; (ii) seven of them were also victims of rape because some of the abuse suffered included penetration of their bodies with some part of the body of the agents or an object, and (iii) all of them were victims of torture owing to the series of assaults and abuse they suffered including, but not limited to, rape, owing to the severity and the intentional nature of the suffering inflicted by the police, as well as the objective which was to humiliate and punish the victims. The Court also found that: (i) in this case, torture was used as a form of social control which increased the egregiousness of the violations committed; (ii) the victims were subjected to diverse forms of psychological and verbal violence that were profoundly stereotypical and discriminatory, and (iii) the treatment received from the prison doctors constituted an additional element of the cruel and degrading treatment. Lastly, the Court considered that the sexual violence and torture, both physical and psychological, used against the eleven victims also constituted gender-based discrimination, in violation of the general prohibition of discrimination established in Article 1(1) of the American Convention. 223. Based on all the above, the Court concludes that the Mexican State violated the rights to personal integrity, privacy, and not to be subjected to torture recognized in Articles 5(1), 5(2) and 11 of the Convention, in relation to the obligations to respect and to ensure these rights without discrimination, established in Articles 1(1) and 2 of this instrument and Articles 1 and 6 of the Inter-American Convention against Torture, and Article 7 of the Convention of Belém do Pará, and recalls that the State has acknowledged the violation of Article 24 of the Convention, to the detriment of Yolanda Muñoz Diosdada, Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio, María Patricia Romero Hernández, Mariana Selvas Gómez, Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez, Ana María Velasco Rodríguez, Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo, Bárbara Italia Méndez Moreno, María Cristina Sánchez Hernández, Angélica Patricia Torres Linares and Claudia Hernández Martínez. 224. Furthermore, to the extent that the violence experienced constituted an unnecessary and illegitimate interference in their right of assembly, the Court concludes that the State also violated this right recognized in Article 15 of the Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) of this instrument, to the detriment of Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio, Suhelen Gabriela Cuevas Jaramillo, Bárbara Italia Méndez Moreno, Angélica Patricia Torres Linares, Claudia Hernández Martínez, Mariana Selvas Gómez and Georgina Edith Rosales Gutiérrez.

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