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CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE

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HEARING

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED FIRIT CONGRENN

CONTENTS

Forte, David, Professor of Law, Cleveland Marshal College of Law, Cleveland

State University, Cleveland, OH..

Prepared statement

Nagan, Winston, Chairman, Board of Directors, Amnesty Internationl USA,

Gainesville, FL......

Prepared statement

Rice, Charles, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN

Prepared statement

Richard, Mark, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, De-

partment of Justice..

Prepared statement

Silkenat, James R., Chairman, Section of International Law and Practice,

American Bar Association, New York, NY.

Prepared statement

Sofaer, Abraham D., Legal Adviser, Department of State..

Prepared statement

Weissbrodt, David, Briggs & Morgan Professor of Law, University of Minneso-

ta, on behalf of the Center for Victims of Torture, the Minnesota Lawyers

International Human Rights Committee, Minneapolis, MN.

Prepared statement

APPENDIX

American Jewish Congress, letter from

Bassiouni, Cherif M., An Appraisal of Torture in International Law and

Practice

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Burns-O'Brien, Peter-Frederico A., prepared statement.

Federal Bar Association, International Law Section, prepared statement.

Human Rights Advocates, prepared statement

Human Rights Watch, prepared statement....

Lowry, Houston Putnam, Esq., prepared statement

statement..

Lynch, Robert N., prepared statement

Newman Frank C., (retired justice), Supreme Court of California, prepared

Northern Ireland, The Political Economy of..

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