 | Walter Gollwitzer - 2005 - 726 pagini
...administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order from a, superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of... | |
 | Christine Van den Wijngaert, Guy Stessens, Liesbeth Janssens - 2005 - 1563 pagini
...administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of... | |
 | Keir Starmer, Theodora A. Christou - 2005 - 1486 pagini
...administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of... | |
 | Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, Brendan Smith - 2007 - 352 pagini
...laws in wartime is "inherent in the president." The Convention Against Torture provides, however, that "[n]o exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture."'' The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which also bans torture and other mistreatment,... | |
 | Mark Tushnet - 2005 - 278 pagini
...grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture?' Artide 2(2) cautions, “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture?' But no parallel caution is incorporated into the rule against refoulement in Article 3(I), and a lawyer... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 216 pagini
...proposed in 1984 by the United Nations General Assembly and was ratified by the US in 1994. It states that "no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture," and that orders from superiors "may not be invoked as a justification of torture." That prohibition... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 792 pagini
...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which states in Article 2 that "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." While serving as Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in 2000,1 stated, upon... | |
 | Great Britain. Intelligence and Security Committee - 2005 - 58 pagini
...Cruel. Inhuman or Degrading Theatment or Punishment can be found at www.ur.ch/html.menu3/b/hcat39inm “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.” 25 . And Article 15 states that: “Each State Party shall ensure that any statement which is established... | |
 | Karen J. Greenberg - 2005 - 440 pagini
...States is a party to the Torture Convention, and Article 2(2) of the Torture Convention declares that " [n]o exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." On its face, Article 2(2) abolishes the necessity defense for the crime of torture. 129 However, this... | |
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cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture or other... 
