The Torture Victim Relief ActThinkers

Torture is also the use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by a person acting under color of law upon another person under his custody or physical control.

Torture is the deliberate mental and physical damage caused by governments to individuals to destroy individual personality and terrorize society. The effects of torture are long term. Those effects can last a lifetime for the survivors and affect future generations. The use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by a person acting under color of law upon another person under his custody or physical control.