Tokyo Declaration (1975).
Torture is the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the orders of any other authority to force another person to yield information, to confess, or for any other reason.
TORTURER
♣ Criminal for extortion
♣ Terrorist group
♣ Housemaster on maidservant
♣ Recruiter on labor
♣ Husband or in-laws on wife
♣ Political opponent
♣ Religious opponent
♣ Police
♣ Security authorities
♣ Military
OBJECTIVES
¨ To obtain information
¨ To confess or admit the crime
¨ For extortion or bribery
¨ To take revenge
¨ To sign any document
¨ To show his power
¨ To spread terror in the community
¨ To stop raised voices against the establishment
TYPES OF TORTURE
A. PHYSICAL
Beating—by a fist, lathi, kick, whip, chain, belt, etc.
FFalanga—beating with rods or rolling on the feet
Repeated slapping on the head, particularly over the ear, can cause rupture of the eardrum.
Finger-twisting, nail plucking, pinching the nail bed, etc.
Suspension
Erected by the wrist
Inverted– by ankle
-by the knee with the hand holding the ankle (Parrot’s perch)
Submersion
Wet Submarino-submersion into water, dirty water, or urine
Dry Submarino-tying of a plastic bag over the head
Jet Submarino—force a lash of water on the nostrils and mouth
Hot sunbathing, standing under the hot sun for a long time
Cold bath—application of ice-cold water
Ghotna-rolling of a wooden log or iron rod up and down on the thigh, fixing the knee
Chepwa-tying of thighs and legs very tightly with a tree or pillar
Electric shock, especially in the penis and scrotum in the case of males and the the nipple in the case of females (cattle prod).
I am straddling—parting the lower limb, sometimes against the rod.
Burned by cigarettes, candles, heated oil, corrosives, flame, etc.
Disfiguring by burn or corrosives
Mutilation-amputation, tooth extraction, chopping off ears, noses, lips, etc.
B. MENTAL
Disallowing sleep
Solitary confinement
Pitch continuous sound
Starving
Bullying and scolding
Blindfolding for a long time
False annoying information
C. SEXUAL
Infliction of injury in the private parts—genitalia, rectum, breast, etc.
Introduction of foreign body into the vagina or anus
Tying of weight with penis or scrotum
Molestation
Squeezing of the scrotum
Introduction of irritants into the genitalia
Rape
Forceful sex
Sodomy
Perverted activity practiced on the victim—urination over the body, nodding, sadistic activity, etc..
D. PHARMACOLOGICAL
Introduction of a psychotropic drug
Making an addiction to drugs
Slow poisoning
Carcinogenic agent
Hepatotoxic or nephrotoxic drug
The drug causing impotence