Torture is about a pervasive abuse of power, in prisons and police stations but also in migrant or juvenile detention centres, psychiatric institutions etc.
The risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment exists everywhere, in all parts of the world. This risk increases in closed environments, in places out of public view.
The APT works to promote a global system of independent monitoring visits to all places of detention, as the most effective way of preventing torture.
Preventing torture, making it work: In this short video APT's Secretary General Mark Thomson and other international experts explain why torture must be prevented.