Obtaining information or a confession
Punishment
Intimidation or coercion
Any reason based on discrimination of any kind
4. By or at the instigation of or with consent or acquiescence of a public official
Often people make a distinction between physical and mental torture. But in reality there is little difference in the effects on the person tortured because the goal is to break the personality of the person tortured in order to gain his/her submission to power. Whether physical means or psychological means are practiced makes little difference in the ultimate character of what constitutes torture. The long lasting effects of brutal physical means of torture are mainly psychological. In addition physical pain is often used to augment psychological means of torture. The result is the same, a breakdown of the person's perception of self, a disintegration of their individual personality and destruction of their self will.
What is Torture of a Disabled Person?
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