ANTI-TORTURE ACT (RA 9745) (12) Use of plastic bag and other materials placed over parading him/her

her materials placed over parading him/her in public

the head to the point of asphyxiation; places, shaving the victim's head
"Torture" - act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally (13) Use of psychoactive drugs to change the or putting marks on his/her
inflicted on a person for such purposes as: perception, memory. alertness or will of a person, body against his/her will;
a) obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession; such as: (11) Deliberately prohibiting the
b) punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having (i) Administration or drugs to induce confession victim to communicate with any
committed; and/or reduce mental competency; or member of his/her family; and
c) intimidating or coercing him or a third person; or (ii) Use of drugs to induce extreme pain or (12) Other analogous acts of
d) for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, certain symptoms of a disease; and mental/psychological torture.
 when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or (14) Other analogous acts of physical torture;
acquiescence of a person in authority or agent of a person in authority. It does not include
pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. [S3(a)] Section 15. Torture as a Separate and Independent Crime.
 Torture not absorb or shall not be absorbed by any other crime or felony committed as a
"Other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment" - deliberate and aggravated consequence, or as a means in the conduct or commission thereof.
treatment or punishment not enumerated under S4, inflicted by a person in authority or agent  Torture shall be treated as a separate and independent criminal act whose penalties shall
of a person in authority against a person under his custody, which attains a level of severity be imposable without prejudice to any other criminal liability provided for by domestic and
causing suffering, gross humiliation or debasement to the latter. [S3(b)] international laws.

Act of Torture under S4:
Physical torture - form of treatment or punishment
inflicted by a person in authority or agent of a
person in authority upon another in his custody that
causes severe pain, exhaustion, disability or dysfunction
(SpEDD) of one or more parts of the body:
(1) Systematic beating, headbanging, punching,
kicking, striking with truncheon or rifle butt or
similar objects, and jumping on the stomach;
(2) Food deprivation or forcible feeding with spoiled
food, animal or human excreta and other stuff not
normally eaten;
(3) Electric shock;
(4) Cigarette burning; burning by electrically heated
rods, hot oil, acid; by rubbing of pepper or other
chemical substances on mucous membranes, or
acids or spices directly on the wound(s);
(5) Submersion of the head in water or water polluted
with excrement, urine, vomit and/or blood until
the brink of suffocation;
(6) Being tied or forced to assume fixed and stressful
bodily position;
(7) Rape and sexual abuse, including the insertion of
foreign objects into the sex organ or rectum, or
electrical torture of the genitals;
(8) Mutilation or amputation of the essential parts of
the body such as the genitalia, ear, tongue, etc.;
(9) Dental torture or forced extraction of the teeth;
(10) Pulling out of fingernails;
(11) Harmful exposure to the elements such as
sunlight and extreme cold;
"Mental/Psychological Torture" -
acts committed by a person in
authority or agent of a person in
authority calculated to affect or
confuse the mind and/or undermine
a person's dignity and morale:
(1) Blindfolding;
(2) Threatening a person or his
relatives with bodily harm or
other wrongful acts;
(3) Confinement in solitary cells or
secret detention places;
(4) Prolonged interrogation;
(5) Preparing a prisoner for a "show
trial", public display or public
humiliation of a detainee or
prisoner;
(6) Causing unscheduled transfer of
a person deprived of liberty
from one place to another,
creating the belief that he shall
be summarily executed;
(7) Maltreating a member/s of a
person's family;
(8) Causing torture sessions to be
witnessed by the person's
family, relatives or any third
party;
(9) Denial of sleep/rest;
(10) Shame infliction such as
stripping the person naked,
Section 13. Who are Criminally Liable.
PRINCIPALS:
 Actually participated (principal by direct participation) or induced (principal by inducement)
another to commit torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment
or who cooperated in the execution of the act of torture or other cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment or punishment by previous or simultaneous acts (principal by
indispensable cooperation and accomplice – treated as principal in torture law)
 Any superior military, police or law enforcement officer or senior government official who
issued an order to any lower ranking personnel to commit torture for whatever purpose
 The immediate commanding officer of the unit concerned of the AFP or the immediate
senior public official of the PNP and other law enforcement agencies for any act or
omission, or negligence committed by him that shall have led, assisted, abetted or allowed
(directly or indirectly) the commission thereof by his/her subordinates.
 If he/she has knowledge of or, should have known that acts of torture etc. shall be
committed, is being committed, or has been committed by his/her subordinates or by
others within his/her area of responsibility and, despite such knowledge, did not take
preventive or corrective action either before, during or immediately after its commission,
when he/she has the authority to prevent or investigate allegations of such but failed to dp
so, whether deliberately or due to negligence.
ACCESSORY:
 Any public officer or employee who has knowledge that torture or other cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment or punishment is being committed and without having participated
therein, either as principal or accomplice, takes part subsequent to its commission:
 By themselves profiting from or assisting the offender to profit from the effects of the
act of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment;
 By concealing the act of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or
punishment and/or destroying the effects or instruments thereof in order to prevent
its discovery; or
 By harboring, concealing or assisting m the escape of the principal/s in the act of
torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment: Provided,
That the accessory acts are done with the abuse of the official's public functions.