MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR NGOS 78 TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT 1 Standards “No person under any form of detention or imprisonment shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. No circumstance whatever may be invoked as a justification for torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” BPP, Principle 6 “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.” ICCPR, Art. 7 “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 “For the purposes of this Convention, the term ‘torture’ means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person personal information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected to have committed, or intimidating or coercing him 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 with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting on an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.” Art. 1 of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984