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    Anti-Torture Act of 2009

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    The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 defines torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and outlines specific physical acts that constitute torture. It defines torture as severe pain or suffering intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information, punish them, or discriminate against them. Victims include those subjected to torture or cruel treatment. The Act lists 14 specific physical forms of torture, including beating, electric shock, rape, mutilation, dental torture, and exposure to elements or asphyxiation. It aims to prevent torture and protect victims.

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    The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 defines torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and outlines specific physical acts that constitute torture. It defines torture as severe pain or suffering intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information, punish them, or discriminate against them. Victims include those subjected to torture or cruel treatment. The Act lists 14 specific physical forms of torture, including beating, electric shock, rape, mutilation, dental torture, and exposure to elements or asphyxiation. It aims to prevent torture and protect victims.

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    The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 defines torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and outlines specific physical acts that constitute torture. It defines torture as severe pain or suffering intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information, punish them, or discriminate against them. Victims include those subjected to torture or cruel treatment. The Act lists 14 specific physical forms of torture, including beating, electric shock, rape, mutilation, dental torture, and exposure to elements or asphyxiation. It aims to prevent torture and protect victims.

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    Anti-Torture Act of 2009

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    The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 defines torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and outlines specific physical acts that constitute torture. It defines torture as severe pain or suffering intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information, punish them, or discriminate against them. Victims include those subjected to torture or cruel treatment. The Act lists 14 specific physical forms of torture, including beating, electric shock, rape, mutilation, dental torture, and exposure to elements or asphyxiation. It aims to prevent torture and protect victims.

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    ANTI-TORTURE ACT OF

    2009

    RA 9745
    TORTURE

    an act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is


    intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from
    him/her or a third person information or a confession; punishing him/her
    for an act he/she 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, when such pain or
    suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or
    acquiescence of a person in authority or agent of a person in authority. It
    does not include pain or Buffering arising only from, inherent in or
    incidental to lawful sanctions.
    VICTIM

    refers to the person subjected to torture or


    other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
    or punishment as defined above and any
    individual who has suffered harm as a result of
    any act(s) of torture, or other cruel, inhuman
    and degrading treatment or punishment.
    ACTS OF TORTURE

    ) Physical torture
    - treatment or punishment inflicted by a person in authority or agent of a
    person in authority upon another in his/her custody that causes severe pain,
    exhaustion, disability or dysfunction of one or more parts of the body:
    (1) Systematic beating, headbanging, punching, kicking, striking with
    truncheon or rifle butt or other similar objects, and jumping on the stomach;
    (2) Food deprivation or forcible feeding with spoiled food, animal or human
    excreta and other stuff or substances not normally eaten;
    (3) Electric shock;
    (4) Cigarette burning; burning by electrically heated rods, hot oil, acid; by the
    rubbing of pepper or other chemical substances on mucous membranes, or acids
    or spices directly on the wound(s);
    (5) The submersion of the head in water or water polluted with excrement, urine,
    vomit and/or blood until the brink of suffocation;
    (6) Being tied or forced to assume fixed and stressful bodily position;
    (7) Rape and sexual abuse, including the insertion of foreign objects into the sex
    organ or rectum, or electrical torture of the genitals;
    (8) Mutilation or amputation of the essential parts of the body
    such as the genitalia, ear, tongue, etc.;
    (9) Dental torture or the forced extraction of the teeth;
    (10) Pulling out of fingernails;
    (11) Harmful exposure to the elements such as sunlight and
    extreme cold;
    (12) The use of plastic bag and other materials placed over the head
    to the point of asphyxiation;
    (13) The use of psychoactive drugs to change the perception,
    memory. alertness or will of a person, such as:
    (i) The administration or drugs to induce confession and/or reduce
    mental competency; or
    (ii) The use of drugs to induce extreme pain or certain symptoms of
    a disease; and
    (14) Other analogous acts of physical torture; and

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