 | Lois Whitman, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) - 1992 - 110 pagini
...the anti-torture provisions even in a time of public emergency that threatens the life of the nation. 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... | |
 | 1992 - 1032 pagini
...of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." As defined in the Convention, "torture" is: any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...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... | |
 | Peter H. Marsden, Geoffrey V. Davis - 2004 - 352 pagini
...as CATCID, spells out, in its first two articles: 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 purpose as obtaining from him or... | |
 | Ken Coates - 2004 - 292 pagini
...torture was outlawed by the United Nations Convention Against Torture (1984). Forbidden are any acts 'by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person' whether to obtain information, extort confessions, or to exact punishment, 'when such pain or suffering... | |
 | Gerald A. Arbuckle - 2004 - 276 pagini
...including politicians in democratic societies, deliberately seek to conceal what happens in “Torture is “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 them... | |
 | Rachel Meeropol - 2004 - 252 pagini
...1994, includes the most comprehensive definition of torture under international law, defining it as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...intentionally inflicted on a person . . . by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an... | |
 | Christine Van den Wijngaert, Guy Stessens, Liesbeth Janssens - 2005 - 1563 pagini
...Treatment or Punishment (1984)* New York, 10 December 1984 PARTI Article 1 1. For the purposes of this Convention, "torture" means any act by which severe...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 810 pagini
...Documentation of the experience and symptoms of torture within 10 Article 1.1 For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 792 pagini
...Documentation of the experience and symptoms of torture within 1 Article 1.1 For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe...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... | |
 | Sharon M. Meagher, Patrice DiQuinzio - 2012 - 274 pagini
...ways states are barred from torturing their citizens: For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering,...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... | |
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