Freedom From Torture

Our remit: Freedom from Torture’s remit is to provide services to persons who have been tortured, as defined by the following: ‘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 information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity or a member of a defined group with a common political, ideological or religious purpose or ethnic identity and exercising effective power.’