CAT/C/34/D/226/2003 Page 13 the Jatiya Party (Ershad) which is still to a large extent in opposition to the present government of Bangladesh. According to unanimous reports from several sources, torture by the police is routine, widespread and carried out with total impunity. According to a recent report of Amnesty International torture has been for many years the most widespread human rights violation in Bangladesh, the opposition politicians are among those who are subjected to torture, the BNP blocks judicial processes against torture, and impunity for perpetrators is general. She alleges that no fundamental changes have taken place in Bangladesh: those who work for the Ershad fraction of the Jatiya Party are still in opposition to the present government; political opponents, whether or not they work at a high-up level or more on a grass-root basis, are subjected to arrests by the police and to torture. In 2002 , 732 women were raped, 106 of whom were killed after rape, 104 people were killed in police custody, and 83 died after torture. 5.5 The complainant clarifies that her and her daughter’s passports were issued on 14 May 2000 and that they applied for a visa at the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka on 25 June 2000, in order to visit the complainant’s sister. These events took place prior to her arrest of 16 August 2000. After her release on 17 August 2000 she was first committed to a clinic because of her injuries, where she got notice of the visa having been issued. Since she was still ill it took her sometime to get everything into order for the departure. She explains that she did not apply for asylum immediately upon her arrival in Sweden because she was still not feeling very well after the torture. She decided to apply for asylum when she learned that the Bangladeshi police was still looking for her. She also states that she gave the same address for her husband in the passport for practical reasons, to avoid being questioned by the Embassy personnel and because is common in Bangladesh for a wife to do that. The complainant’s sister visited Bangladesh from December 2002 to February 2003, where she learned that the police was still looking for T.A. 5.6 The complainant notes that the authorities of the State party should take into particular consideration how its treatment may affect a child and also whether a treatment which might not constitute inhuman or degrading treatment when inflicted on an adult may nevertheless constitute such treatment when it is inflicted on a child.