Edited sentence: Asquith was accepted as its architect.Asquith was not attuned to the democratic ideal or the notion that women were citizens with human rights.He did not distinquish himself as a supporter of human rights.The legislation under which this regime of torture occurred was dubbed 'the Cat and Mouse Act'.To the contrary, it was Asquith who led the attack against the Suffragettes as they struggled for the right of women to vote.Under Asquith, women were arrested for demonstrating about the franchise or for shouting out 'Votes for Women'.When the women's health was damaged, they were set free only to be recaptured and imprisoned when they had recovered enough to be locked up and force fed again.When women began hunger strikes in prison as a way of expressing their commitment to the cause and their abhorence at being held in custody as political prisoners, but without acknowledgement of their political status, Asqith's government not only condoned but encouraged the torture of women by force feeding