He had never been subjected to torture or any form of harassment.

Indeed, a number of injured inmates have been deliberately left untreated as a form of torture.

47. Torture was a form of violence for which the State was in many cases responsible.

Furthermore, it is UNHCR s policy that female genital mutilation may be considered a form of torture.76

Some proponents of the proposition that corporal punishment is not necessarily a form of torture argue that support for their position may be found in article 1 of the Convention against Torture, wherein torture is defined for the purposes of the Convention.

QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT, IN PARTICULAR TORTURE AND OTHER

QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT, IN PARTICULAR TORTURE AND OTHER

The Government further stated that this person, according to the Istanbul Protocol, did not suffer from any form of torture.

QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT, IN PARTICULAR TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL,

Incommunicado detention, which itself often facilitates the perpetration of torture and can constitute a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, must be eliminated.

The State party concludes that as the allegations of torture have not been substantiated, they cannot form the basis of the Committee's assessment of the case.

4. Reminds all States that prolonged incommunicado detention may facilitate the perpetration of torture and can in itself constitute a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment

The Ambassador concluded that he could not evaluate the veracity of these statements, but did not understand the claim to be of any form of systematic, physical torture.

But it is not unrelated to sex. The sexual act is used as a form of torture, or even, in some cases, as a deadly weapon.

The main purpose of torture and ill treatment was said to be the extraction of information and the signing of confessions in the form of written statements (procès verbaux) during interrogation, but it was also said to have been used as a form of punishment.

(c) Question of the human rights of all persons subjected to any form of detention or imprisonment, in particular torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

At its thirty fourth session, held from 2 to 21 May 2005, the Committee against Torture adopted new guidelines on the form and content of initial reports under article 19 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Special Rapporteur on the question of the human rights of all persons subjected to any form of detention or imprisonment, in particular torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

prohibition of torture

Victims of torture

They were allegedly chained in groups of four and forced to walk to Samdrup Jonkhar prison, where they were allegedly subjected to a form of torture in which the thighs are pressed between two rods (chepua), and threatened with further torture if they did not cease their activities.

And that was torture, real torture.

Urges Governments to protect medical and other personnel for their role in documenting torture or any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and in treating victims of such acts

Torture of the mind. The most exquisite torture is all in the mind.

The torture was good. Wasn't it good torture?

World Organization against Torture (OMCT SOS Torture) (Geneva)

Death by torture 137. There have been serious, substantiated reports of torture, including torture by applying electric current through a baton or club. The information gathered confirms that torture is used systematically.

It's become an art form, a form of sculpture.

Although Hamdan recognizes the legitimacy of confining enemy combatants until the end of hostilities, doing so is untenable. The international community will not accept this form of massive preventive detention, with continuing allegations of abuse and torture.

I. THE USE OF TORTURE

Methods of torture and interrogation

(e) Torture of close relatives

Abolition of Torture) International Organization of

5. Invites the Special Rapporteur to examine questions concerning torture directed primarily against women and children and conditions conducive to such torture, and to make appropriate recommendations concerning the prevention of gender specific forms of torture and the torture of children

We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95 percent of torture today is not for political prisoners.

11 See ICCPR, art. 2 Convention against Torture and other Cruel Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, art. 13 Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, principle 33.

On 20 November 1996 the Government replied that during the investigation, he had enjoyed the legally stipulated guarantees protecting accused persons and had not been subjected to any form of pressure, coercion or torture.

The Special Rapporteur on torture had received allegations of the extensive practice of torture by the Turkish police.

8. Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment or any other form of deprivation of liberty for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

11. Stresses that States must not punish personnel who are involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment or any other form of deprivation of liberty for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Commending the persistent efforts by non governmental organizations, including the considerable network of centres for the rehabilitation of victims of torture, to combat torture and to alleviate the suffering of victims of torture,

Commending the persistent efforts by non governmental organizations, including the considerable network of centres for the rehabilitation of victims of torture, to combat torture and to alleviate the suffering of victims of torture,

Torture Chamber

(b) Torture

4. Torture