One of the critical aims of Advocacy Forum’s (AF) is to reduce the practice of torture, promote a system of accountability and address impunity relating to torture. As part of that work, the organization produces briefings on trends and patterns relating to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. These briefings also bring to light the state’s responses to the complaints communicated to them. AF regularly communicates cases to national and international bodies requesting these bodies to put pressure on the authorities to conduct impartial investigations and to provide security to victims in detention. This briefing is the eighth such briefing providing an analysis of patterns from January to June 2011.