8. SCOPE NOTES C. ADDITIONAL DETAILS: TORTURE According to the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture, torture is: "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity." Include a general description of the torture, its nature and its duration in field 2150 Remarks. Personnel who actively or passively performed, administered, ordered, encouraged or otherwise participated in the torture should be described on the Person (Perpetrator) Format and linked to the Act Format using the Involvement link Format. 3302 Act Record Number Definition: The number of the Act record to which these Additional Details are connected. Guidelines: Each Additional Details record must be connected to an act. This field is not repeatable and does not allow for clarifying notes. Entry: The record number of the related Act record. Examples: 000159 (These Additional Details are connected to the 159th Act record.) 3311 Statement Signed Definition: A description of statements signed under torture or threat of torture. Guidelines: Use codes from Micro-thesaurus 36: Statements Signed, as noted below: 01 02 03 04 05 99 Forced to sign Not requested or forced to sign anything Requested to sign but refused Signed a statement voluntarily with full understanding Signed a statement voluntarily but without understanding it Unknown This is a repeatable field. Use clarifying notes to report all statements that were signed. 126