Torture can occur in different places
Police station
Homes of the victim
In police and non police vehicles
In lodges
In isolated open or closed areas - schools, buildings, basements, godowns, factories, quarries
In prisons
Detention centres
Checkpoints
Hospitals
Psychiatric facilities
Shelter homes/remand homes/orphanages
Often people are most at risk of torture and other ill-treatment in the first phase of arrest and detention before they have access to lawyers, courts or doctors.
People who are held without allowing them to access their family, acquantances or lawyers (incommunicado) are extremely vulnerable to torture. There are no checks in the methods of interrogation or the legality of their detention. Some of them may be labelled as ‘disappearances’ with the victim not being found or found dead.
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