Treatment center for torture victims opens in Britain

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AFP , LONDON

All is peaceful at the newly-opened center for the victims of torture, light years away from the horrors that the men and women who attend it experienced for periods that could last for years.

The new center, in north London, is run by the charity Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, set up in 1985, and was opened last month.

Most of its patients come from Turkey, Iran and Africa. Last year the foundation treated 2,100 new patients. In 2004, it says, there are "a few thousand." They are aged between 16 and 40 and there is a high proportion of under-18s. For years the number of women victims has been growing.

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