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• A student was sentenced to birching (spanked with a birch rod) for hitting a classmate. He was sore for 10 days, but was not cut. He argued that this violated Article 3 of European Convention on Human Rights. At first the court ruled in the kid's favor, the case was appealed, and the court ruled it as a form of degrading punishment but did not rule it as a form of torture.
• Torture must reach a certain level of severity to be considered torture, but this level is measured subjectively

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