5.9 Istanbul Protocol

The Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and OtherCruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment — the UN's standard (the 1999 first; the 2022 revision): the torture's documentation's international protocol — the principles: the urgent evaluation (the custody's access); the independence (the examiner's freedom); the informed consent; the confidentiality-and-security; the procedure's core: the history-taking (the torture's account — the detention's narrative); the physical examination (the acute-and-chronic lesions); the psychological evaluation (the trauma's assessment — the PTSD's faces); the report's standards (the findings-and-opinions; the consistency's analysis — the lesion-and-allegation match); the Nepal application: the torture examination's domestication (the human-rights bodies' use; the NHRC's-and-courts' reception — the U6's bridge).