Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
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Inhuman treatment
The Equality and Human Rights Commission defines inhuman treatment as:
- serious physical assault
- psychological interrogation
- cruel detention conditions or restraints
- physical or psychological abuse in a healthcare setting
- threatening to torture someone
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Degrading treatment
The Equality and Human Rights Commission defines degrading treatment as undignified and humiliating treatment. Whether treatment is considered degrading is dependent on several factors, including the duration of the treatment; physical and mental effects on the victim; and the victim's age, race, sex, and vulnerabilities.
Medical or scientific experimentation without the free consent of the subject
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in its Article 7 expressly prohibits the medical or scientific experimentation without free consent of its subject(s) and recognizes it as a particular form of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Moreover the Article 4.2 of the ICCPR expressly prohibits derogation from this prohibition in its Article 7, and thus is directly establishing it as peremptory norm. This makes the non-consensual medical or scientific experimentation potentially punishable under the provisions of national penal codes concerning the crimes of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and this in all countries which are parties of the ICCPR and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.