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Home Documents Torture and Detention Proving Torture: Demanding the impossible

Proving Torture: Demanding the impossible

The 79 page report reveals how Home Office asylum caseworkers disregard or mistreat expert medical evidence of torture and make clinical judgements about survivors’ injuries that they are not qualified to make. The report provides a detailed analysis of how a cohort of 50 expert medico-legal reports documenting physical and psychological evidence of torture has been treated by asylum caseworkers in the UK Home Office.

Download: Proving Torture: Demanding the impossible  [pdf: 1.48MB] - Published: November 2016

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