an elevated position or hanging upside down.
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,
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