6.2. RESPECT FOR THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM FROM TORTURE AND CRUEL, INHUMAN AND DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT From the very outset the project team identified monitoring of the right to freedom from torture and ill treatment among detainees as a priority during monitoring visits to closed institutions both while in places of detention and before placement in closed institutions. The assessment of the situation has been based on the information gathered in the course of the monitoring work with the use of a previously tested monitoring methodology. Direct sources such as torture allegations by suspects, persons charged with committing offences and convicts during interviews were a determining factor. Almost all respondents informed of instances of torture and cruel treatment at the moment of apprehension for purposes of preliminary intimidation, suppressing their will, coercion to confess a crime and provide a written acknowledgement of guilt as well as for mere punishment purposes. Diagram 17. Purposes of torture From a monitoring group report: “They were forcing me to testify against a staff member of the village council, K., and the doctor, M., and to confirm that they were Hizb ut-Tahrir members.”27 From a monitoring group report: “On 20 October 2012 a police officer from the CCIU MI arrived and insisted that I should confess three more thefts, and was threatening me.”28 From a monitoring group report: “They were threatening and saying that if I do not confess three more offence additionally my mother will be locked up in a temporary detention facility.”29 In 1.6% of cases, torture was used to punish individuals for disciplinary violations. Two detainees in TDFs asserted that torture against them was the result of ethnic discrimination. In 3.8% of cases, cruel treatment was accompanied by extortion. From a monitoring group report: “They were forcing me to confess the crimes that I did not commit, and the investigator was asking for 5000 KGS to send the case to court quickly.”30 Every case of torture is special and unique, and depending on personal features, behaviour and mental state of the victim, torture can affect their psyche to varying degrees. In all cases, with no 27 Monitoring group report, No. 4-d. Monitoring group report, No. 1-7/45. 29 Monitoring group report, No. 1-1/25. 30 Monitoring group report, No. 1-2/10. 28 53