 | 1986 - 1178 pagini
...supplies a precise definition of the conduct proscribed. The UN Declaration on Torture 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 on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | 984 pagini
...or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 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 a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | United States. President - 1976 - 422 pagini
...Declaration enunciates a set of legal principles that would deter or prohibit torture, which it defines ;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 on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | James Avery Joyce - 1978 - 582 pagini
...resolution 3452 (XXX) of 9 December 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 a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, in order:... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1980 - 758 pagini
...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, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official . . . for . . . obtaining . . . information or confession... | |
 | John Albert Andrews, United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law - 1982 - 460 pagini
...which was adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly (Res. 3452 (XXX), defines torture as follows: '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 410 obtaining from him... | |
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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... 
