B) SUBMERSION/SUFFOCATION
(WATER BOARDING)
C) BEATING
A form of assault whereby water is forced into the victim’s breathing passages so as to simulate
drowning.
D) OTHER ASSAULT
Is any form of physical assault including hitting of a person with or without an object such as a
stick, belt, whip, barbed wire, log or any other object including bare hands. It also includes the
kicking or head-butting of a person; and includes stabbing, shooting and forced consumption
(forcing a person or overeat or eat something poisonous or their own excreta.)
TORTURE
Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted
on a person by or instigation of public official or other person acting in an official capacity for
purposes of obtaining from the victim or a third person information or a confession, punishing
him/her for an act s/he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or
intimidating or coercing him/her or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of
any kind
THREAT
It is whereby a person threatens to commit a crime, including but not limited to murder, rape,
aggravated indecent assault, unlawful detention, theft, malicious damage to property thereby
inspiring in the person on whom she/he communicates the threat of a reasonable fear or belief that
he or she will commit the crime.
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