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... Professional Law Enforcement Codes: A Documentary Collectionde John Kleinig - 1993 - 273 paginiNu există previzualizare disponibilă - Despre această carte
| 2000 - 796 pagini
...In the United States Senate resolution of ratification of the Convention. (1) Torture is defined as 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 her or a third person information or a confession,... | |
| 1986 - 1178 pagini
...a very similar definition of torture (E/CN.4/1367, Annex at 1): For the purpose of this Convention, 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,... | |
| Antonio Cassese - 1979 - 276 pagini
...international condemnations of torture. It provided a definition of torture lacking in the earlier instruments: torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally afflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person, for such purposes as obtaining... | |
| E. Lauterpacht - 1980 - 758 pagini
...Paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Resolution referred to reads: For the purpose of this Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering,...inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official . . . for . . . obtaining . . . information or confession . . . Paragraph 2 of Article 1 reads: Torture... | |
| M. Cherif Bassiouni - 1980 - 298 pagini
...Articles 3 and 7. Article VIII. Torture Section 1. Acts of Torture 1.0 The crime of torture is any conduct by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person by or at the instigation of a public official or for which a public official is responsible,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1984 - 312 pagini
...measures which they themselves agreed upon In 1975. Article 1 1. For the purpose of this Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering,...intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of • public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information... | |
| Louis B. Sohn - 1986 - 1118 pagini
...the world, Have agreed as follows: PART I Article 1 1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "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,... | |
| Inter-American Commission on Human Right - 1987 - 1282 pagini
...Organization. 1 8. The 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture mentioned above defines torture as: ... 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 thid person information or a confession, punishing... | |
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