“In deciding when an immigrant into the United Kingdom should not be detained because they had been tortured the definition of torture in the Secretary of State’s detention policy in force before January 2013 was any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, was 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 had committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based upon discrimination of any kind.”
WLR Daily, 17th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
