Section 4. Acts of Torture. —

For purposes of this Act, torture shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

1. Physical torture is a form of treatment or punishment inflicted by a person in authority or agent of a person in authority upon another in his/her custody that causes severe pain, exhaustion, disability or dysfunction of one or more parts of the body, such as:

   1. Systematic beating, headbanging, punching, kicking, striking with truncheon or rifle butt or other similar objects, and jumping on the stomach;

   2. Food deprivation or forcible feeding with spoiled food, animal or human excreta and other stuff or substances not normally eaten;

   3. Electric shock;

   4. Cigarette burning; burning by electrically heated rods, hot oil, acid; by the rubbing of pepper or other chemical substances on mucous membranes, or acids or spices directly on the wound(s);

   5. The 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 the forced extraction of the teeth;

   10. Pulling out of fingernails;

   11. Harmful exposure to the elements such as sunlight and extreme cold;

   12. The use of plastic bag and other materials placed over the head to the point of asphyxiation;

   13. The use of psychoactive drugs to change the perception, memory, alertness or will of a person, such as:

       1. The administration of drugs to induce confession and/or reduce mental competency; or

       2. The use of drugs to induce extreme pain or certain symptoms of a disease; and

   14. Other analogous acts of physical torture; and

2. "Mental/Psychological Torture" refers to acts committed by a person in authority or agent of a person in authority which are calculated to affect or confuse the mind and/or undermine a person's dignity and morale, such as:

   1. Blindfolding;

   2. Threatening a person(s) or his/her relative(s) with bodily harm, execution 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/she shall be summarily executed;

   7. Maltreating a member/s of a person's family;

   8. Causing the 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, parading him/her in public places, shaving the victim's head or putting marks on his/her body against his/her will;

   11. Deliberately prohibiting the victim to communicate with any member of his/her family; and

   12. Other analogous acts of mental/psychological torture.