 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 1308 pagini
...Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against Torture): [l'jorture means 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... | |
 | Helmut K Anheier, Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor - 2005 - 510 pagini
...Kamada-Kawai (KK) spring optimisation function uses the shortest path distance between nodes. Torture. 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... | |
 | Wilhelm Heitmeyer, John Hagan - 2005 - 782 pagini
...Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment defines torture as: 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... | |
 | Mark R. Amstutz - 2005 - 284 pagini
...“Torture,” Philosophy & Public Policy 7 (Winter 1978): 124. 43. The Torture Convention defines torture as “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... | |
 | Boleslaw Adam Boczek - 2005 - 538 pagini
...1987, had 129 parties, including the United States (US), in May 2002. It defines torture in Art. 1 as “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... | |
 | Felipe Gómez Isa - 2005 - 340 pagini
...Against Torture (GAT) and other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment defines torture as: 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... | |
 | Lone Lindholt, Sten Schaumburg-Müller - 2005 - 412 pagini
...procedures that imply physical, psychological or sexual violence or moral coercion. CAT defines torture as "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... | |
 | Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, Brendan Smith - 2007 - 352 pagini
...TANTAMOUNT TO TORTURE Torture is illegal in all forms, in all places, and at all times. It is defined as "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."' The Geneva... | |
 | Kimberly Barrett, William George, William H George - 2005 - 500 pagini
...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT, 1987) defined torture as “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... | |
 | L. J. Van Den Herik - 2005 - 373 pagini
...Judgement, the Trial Chamber recalled the definition laid down in Article 1 of the Convention as: "... 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... | |
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1. For the purpose of the present Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person by or at the 
