Convention Against Torture: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, January 30, 1990U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 196 pagini |
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... Existing U.S. law makes any act falling within the convention's definition of torture a criminal offense as well as a violation of various civil statutes . We do not have a torture problem within the United States . Nonetheless , we ...
... Existing U.S. law makes any act falling within the convention's definition of torture a criminal offense as well as a violation of various civil statutes . We do not have a torture problem within the United States . Nonetheless , we ...
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... Existing U.S. law makes any acts falling within the Convention's definition of torture a criminal offense , as well as a viola- tion of various civil statutes . Potential remedies include incarceration , compensa- tion , and the full ...
... Existing U.S. law makes any acts falling within the Convention's definition of torture a criminal offense , as well as a viola- tion of various civil statutes . Potential remedies include incarceration , compensa- tion , and the full ...
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... existing law , the competent au- thorities for ensuring the execution of this obligation are the Secre- tary of State for extradition and the Attorney General for deporta- tion . Because article 3 does not permit any discretion or ...
... existing law , the competent au- thorities for ensuring the execution of this obligation are the Secre- tary of State for extradition and the Attorney General for deporta- tion . Because article 3 does not permit any discretion or ...
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... existing law , the " competent authorities " for ensuring the execution of this obligation are the Secretary of State for extradition and the Attor- ney General for deportation . Article 3 does not require that such determinations be ...
... existing law , the " competent authorities " for ensuring the execution of this obligation are the Secretary of State for extradition and the Attor- ney General for deportation . Article 3 does not require that such determinations be ...
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... existing legislation , and that relates to , among other things , activities by U.S. nationals abroad . We would not currently have jurisdiction over those activities , and the convention would mandate that we create jurisdiction . Like ...
... existing legislation , and that relates to , among other things , activities by U.S. nationals abroad . We would not currently have jurisdiction over those activities , and the convention would mandate that we create jurisdiction . Like ...
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action acts of torture adopted Amnesty International Amnesty International USA application article 16 article 21 article 30 Bassiouni Chairman civil committed Committee Against Torture complaints concerning CONGRESS THE LIBRARY constitute torture Convention Against Torture countries Court of Justice crime cruel definition of torture degrading treatment detained detention Diplock courts effect extradition Geneva Conventions genocide convention German Democratic Republic Government implementation individual infliction inhuman or degrading International Court international law judicial jurisdiction law enforcement LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ment Northern Ireland obligations package pain or suffering paragraph paramilitary Party person police political practice of torture prevent principles prisoners procedures prohibition proposed reservations prosecution protection ratification receive and consider recognizes the competence Senator HELMS Sinn Féin social SOFAER subjected to torture supra note tion Torture Convention Torture to receive transmittal treatment or punishment treaty ture U.S. Constitution United Kingdom United Nations values vention violation
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Pagina 167 - Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of 12 August 1949; the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of 12 August 1949; the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War...
Pagina 169 - torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent...
Pagina 16 - ... whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person...
Pagina 152 - Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Pagina 71 - Covenant may at any time declare under this article that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications to the effect that a State Party claims that another State Party is not fulfilling its obligations under the present Covenant.
Pagina 56 - Each State Party shall include this prohibition in the rules or instructions issued in regard to the duties and functions of any such persons. Article 11 Each State Party shall keep under systematic review interrogation rules, instructions, methods and practices as well as arrangements for the custody and treatment of persons subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment in any territory under its jurisdiction, with a view to preventing any cases of torture.
Pagina 151 - No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.
Pagina 75 - No State Party shall expel, return ('refouler') or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.
Pagina 57 - Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating him or other persons.
Pagina 157 - Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment...