MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE 100 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 cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment or treatment. All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person”. Article 5, American Convention on Human Rights, 1978 “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 “Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being and to the recognition of his legal status. All forms of exploitation and degradation of man particularly slavery, slave trade, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment shall be prohibited.” Art. 5, ACHPR “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