Torture attacks the human body and mind equally in the most humiliating way.
Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club the other day, Dr Inge Genefke, also the honorary secretary-general of the IRCT, briefed reporters on the methods and strategies employed by the IRCT to help torture victims and pursing the agenda of spreading the preventive messages across. Replying to questions, Dr Genefke acknowledged that the Pakistani population perhaps would be sharing similar problems while coming into contact with police as elsewhere in the world but there might be shining examples from civilised police of other countries. She stated that the IRCT had directed primary prevention regarding torture towards society, aiming at eradicating torture before it could happen. Asked for any IRCT rating of the countries by virtue of their torture practices, Dr Genefke said her organisation never opposed the menace of torture on any other grounds but as a global phenomena. She, however, acknowledged that the IRCT had opposed the Turkish authorities specifically for their torturous methods just because they were scaring away the victims of torture reporting to IRCT centres, besides threatening doctors working for their rehabilitation.