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relationship with prisoners or detainees the purpose of which
is not solely to evaluate, protect or improve their physical and
mental health.
Principle 4
It is a contravention of medical ethics for health personnel,
particularly physicians:
(a) To apply their knowledge and skills in order to assist in
the interrogation of prisoners and detainees in a manner that
may adversely affect the physical or mental health or
condition of such prisoners or detainees and which is not in
accordance with the relevant international instruments;
(b) To certify, or to participate in the certification of, the fitness
of prisoners or detainees for any form of treatment or
punishment that may adversely affect their physical or mental
health and which is not in accordance with the relevant
international instruments, or to participate in any way in the
infliction of any such treatment or punishment which is not in
accordance with the relevant international instruments.
Principle 5
It is a contravention of medical ethics for health personnel,
particularly physicians, to participate in any procedure for
restraining a prisoner or detainee unless such a procedure is
determined in accordance with purely medical criteria as
being necessary for the protection of the physical or mental
health or the safety of the prisoner or detainee himself, of his
fellow prisoners or detainees, or of his guardians, and
presents no hazard to his physical or mental health.
Principle 6
There may be no derogation from the foregoing principles on
any ground whatsoever, including public emergency.
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1. For the purpose of this Declaration, torture means any act
by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or
mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a
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