torture" as follows: * * * any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person * * * when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of... Congressional Serial Set - Pagina 71992Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| 1977 - 714 pagini
...guideline for all States and other entities exercising effective power. The Declaration defines torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official for such purpose as obtaining from him or a third person... | |
| 2000 - 1032 pagini
...set forth in the United States instrument of ratification to the Convention. (b) Torture means: (1) Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...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... | |
| 1999 - 940 pagini
...set forth in the United States instrument of ratification to the Convention. (b) Torture means: (1) Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...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... | |
| Antonio Cassese - 1979 - 276 pagini
...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... | |
| John Albert Andrews, United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law - 1982 - 460 pagini
...Treatment or Punishment, which was adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly (Res. 3452 (XXX), defines torture as follows: 'any act by which severe...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... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1984 - 312 pagini
...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, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of • public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him... | |
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