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The relevant provision in domestic law which criminalizes torture (art. 208 of the Jordanian Penal Code) stipulates: A/HRC/4/33/Add.3 page 7 “(1) Anyone who inflicts on a person any form of unlawful violence or harsh treatment with a view to obtaining a confession to an offence or information thereon shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of three months to three years (...) (2) If such acts of violence or harsh treatment lead to illness or injury, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a period of six months to three years unless the said acts warrant a more severe penalty.” 13. (...) In fact the centre could only be described as a punishment centre, where detainees are routinely beaten and subjected to corporal punishment amounting to torture. The isolation and harshness of the desert environment compounds the already severe conditions of the prisoners.

Use the haze as a measure of the subsurface abrasion, after the test piece has been subjected to the abrasion test. (...) Use the haze as a measure of the subsurface abrasion, after the test piece has been subjected to the abrasion test. (...) Cleaning after abrasion After the abrasion test is done, handle the test pieces by their edges to prevent contamination of their surfaces.

Medical certificates provided by the complainants indicate that the first complainant had numerous small abrasions around his neck and collarbone and bruises on his leg, and the second complainant had haemorrhages on his head, his eyebrow and jaw were swollen, and there were multiple abrasions around his neck and collarbone. 2.6 The second complainant also alleges that he was not allowed to have insulin injections for the entire period of detention in the police station and in the temporary detention facility, which resulted in aggravation of his condition. 2.7 On an unspecified date, the complainants were convicted for crimes under articles 181 (extortion), 144 (kidnapping), 260 (illicit preparation, production, purchase, keeping, shipment, transfer or sale of narcotics) and 236 (illicit purchase, keeping, carrying, production, shipment, transfer or sale of firearms, ammunitions, explosive materials or explosive devices) of the Criminal Code of Georgia. (...) The State party maintained that “not all types of harsh treatment” fell within the scope of the Convention8 and that the forensic medical examinations in the present case had revealed injuries that belonged to the category of light injuries without damage to the complainants’ health. (...) The Committee also notes that the first complainant alleges that the act of witnessing the second complainant, his son, being subjected to that treatment by the authorities in order to compel the complainants to confess to a crime itself amounted to torture under article 1 of the Convention. 9.3 The Committee observes that the medic on duty at the temporary detention facility recorded abrasions and bruises on one complainant on 10 October 2010, and on the other complainant on 11 October 2010, and that the injuries recorded were consistent with the complainants’ accounts.

Use the haze as a measure of the subsurface abrasion, after the test piece has been subjected to the abrasion test. (...) Set the counter to zero and programme the appropriate number of cycles. Start the abraser and subject the test piece to abrasion for the selected number of cycles. (...) Cleaning after abrasion After the abrasion test is done, handle the test pieces by their edges to prevent contamination of their surfaces.

Use the haze as a measure of the subsurface abrasion, after the test piece has been subjected to the abrasion test. (...) Set the counter to zero and programme the appropriate number of cycles. Start the abraser and subject the test piece to abrasion for the selected number of cycles. (...) Cleaning after abrasion After the abrasion test is done, handle the test pieces by their edges to prevent contamination of their surfaces.