No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Torture: Deliberate inhuman treatment causing very serious and cruel suffering.

Inhuman treatment/ Punishment: Treatment / punishment that causes intense physical and mental suffering.

Degrading treatment / punishment: Treatment / punishment that arouses in the victim a feeling of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing the victim and possibly breaking his or her physical or moral resistance.