Treatment of torture victims--a longitudinal clinical study.

Aim: To look at the effect of physiotherapy as part of the multidisciplinary treatment of torture victims.

Methods: Monitoring of an extended, personally designed, multidisciplinary treatment of 21 torture victims, earlier exposed to both physical and psychological torture, over nine months with assessment of outcome. The physiotherapy comprised elements such as massage, exercise on land, balance training and stimulation of proprioception, all aiming at regaining body awareness.

Producing medico-legal evidence: documentation of torture versus the Saudi Arabian state of denial.

Five British men were detained and allegedly tortured in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and 2001. Two were sentenced to death and three were sentenced to 12 to 18 years of imprisonment. They received clemency in 2003 and were deported to England.

Torture--a plague to the world-society.

In this article the authors discussed about government-sanctioned torture, methods of torture, diagnosis of torture along with its modern history, the effect of torture, post-traumatic stress disorder in torture survivors, prevention of torture, impunity and entered into their conclusion based upon more than 20 years of professional medical and psychological work against torture.