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monitoring, asylum evaluations, defending the rights of It is important that all actors use the Istanbul Protocol
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individuals who are coerced to give confessions through in good faith and take measures to prevent its misuse,
torture or ill-treatment, and needs assessments for the including to exonerate perpetrators on the basis of
care of torture victims. Moreover, the Istanbul Protocol’s the absence of physical and/or psychological findings
investigation and documentation standards and methods of torture or ill-treatment, to arbitrarily disqualify
are applicable whether activities are conducted in-person independent, non-governmental clinical experts from
or remotely. This manual also provides an international testifying in judicial proceedings and to misrepresent
point of reference to prevent neglect, misinterpretation, its guidance on the formulation of clinicians’
deliberate misuse or falsification of torture evidence by interpretations of findings and their conclusions
health professionals, either willingly or under coercion. regarding the possibility of torture or ill-treatment.
8 The Istanbul Protocol is not intended as a method for excluding the possibility of torture and ill-treatment. See, for example, CAT/C/MEX/CO/7, paras. 26–27.
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