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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... mental hospitals and he has not released the political prisoners being brainwashed there . As for Communist China , I guess running over innocent civilians with tanks is not torture under this convention . Now , I raise these questions ...
... mental hospitals and he has not released the political prisoners being brainwashed there . As for Communist China , I guess running over innocent civilians with tanks is not torture under this convention . Now , I raise these questions ...
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... extremely cruel and inhuman nature , specifically intended to inflict excruciating and agonizing physical or mental pain or suffering . " This proposal was criticized by some as possibly setting a higher , more difficult evidentiary 9.
... extremely cruel and inhuman nature , specifically intended to inflict excruciating and agonizing physical or mental pain or suffering . " This proposal was criticized by some as possibly setting a higher , more difficult evidentiary 9.
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... mental pain or suffering and that mental pain or suffering refers to pro- longed mental harm caused by or resulting from ( 1 ) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering ; ( 2 ) the ...
... mental pain or suffering and that mental pain or suffering refers to pro- longed mental harm caused by or resulting from ( 1 ) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering ; ( 2 ) the ...
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... mental anguish . This definitional vagueness makes it doubtful that the United States can , consistent with constitutional due process constraints , fulfill its obligation under the convention to adequately engraft the definition of tor ...
... mental anguish . This definitional vagueness makes it doubtful that the United States can , consistent with constitutional due process constraints , fulfill its obligation under the convention to adequately engraft the definition of tor ...
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... mental , is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as intimidating or coercing him or a third party ... mental pain that the defi- nition poses the greatest problem . Mental pain is by its nature sub- jective . There is ...
... mental , is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as intimidating or coercing him or a third party ... mental pain that the defi- nition poses the greatest problem . Mental pain is by its nature sub- jective . There is ...
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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...