CAT/C/34/D/226/2003 Page 6 to which torture was frequent and a matter of routine in Bangladesh. She also submitted three certificates dated 20 and 22 November 2001, and 22 February 2002, respectively, showing that the post-traumatic stress syndrome had grown worse and that there was a serious risk of suicide. One certificate showed that her daughter had nightmares and flashbacks of the incident in which their home was vandalized in Bangladesh, and that her emotional development had been impaired as a result. 2.8 By its decision of 25 February 2002, the Aliens Appeals Board considered that torture and rape were not attributable to the State but to the isolated action of some policemen, that the complainant had been working for a legal party and had been a common member without noticeable influence, ant that because of the political change in Bangladesh there were no reasonable grounds for believing that she would be subjected to arrest and torture by the police if returned to her country. 2.9 As attachments to the new applications for a resident permit on humanitarian grounds, filed on 20 May and 1 July 2002, the complainant submitted additional medical evidence on her declining mental health and that of her daughter. The medical certificates, dated 19 and 22 April 2002, and 7 May 2002, showed that the complainant’s mental health deteriorated after the decision of the Aliens Board. She suffered from a dissociate state of mind, experienced a feeling of being present in the trauma she had been subjected to. She displayed increasing suicidal tendencies. Her daughter showed symptoms of serious traumatisation. On 26 May 2002, the complainant tried to commit suicide, and was admitted to the psychiatric ward of St. Goran’s Hospital in Stockholm on the same day, for compulsory psychiatric treatment. On 26 March 2002, a psychiatrist certified that she suffered from a serious mental disturbance possibly from psychosis. The compulsory psychiatric treatment was based on the risk of suicide. According to another expert, the complainant’s mental health further deteriorated after her release from hospital on 6 August 2002. She could no longer care for her daughter, who had been placed with another family. The expert suggested, however, that she be placed on ambulatory treatment, because while in hospital the complainant’s mental health had worsened. As regard to the complainant’s daughter, the medical certificate stated that she had fallen into a serious and threatening state and that she would need a long period of psychotherapeutic treatment.