 | Sigrun Skogly - 2006 - 235 pagini
...different provisions that place extraterritoriality in a new light. The Convention defines torture 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... | |
 | Jennifer Gunning, Søren Holm - 2005 - 364 pagini
...Treatment or Punishment' has the following wording in Articles 1 & 2 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... | |
 | Francisco Forrest Martin, Stephen J. Schnably, Richard Wilson, Jonathan Simon, Mark Tushnet - 2006 - 1028 pagini
...Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Article 1 Parti 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... | |
 | Michael Welch - 2006 - 236 pagini
...Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984): [T]he term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering,...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes of obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him... | |
 | Stephen Macedo - 2006 - 398 pagini
...Commission of Inquiry, 18. 148. Plainte, 16. The definition in Article 1 of the Torture Convention reads: '[T]orture' means any act by which severe pain or...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... | |
 | Steven D. Roper, Lilian A. Barria - 2006 - 216 pagini
...the State, by all legitimate means. Section 7 Torture 7.1 For the purposes of the present regulation, 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/her or a third person information or a confession, punishing... | |
 | Laura Magnani, Harmon L. Wray - 2006 - 220 pagini
...This is the case with New York prisoner Willie Bosket. 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 . . . a confession, punishing him for an... | |
 | Dylan Rodr Ưguez - 331 pagini
...Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, states: [T]he 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... | |
 | Henri Alleg - 2006 - 122 pagini
...United Nations Convention AgainstTorture, ratified by the United States in 1994, 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... | |
 | Alfred Alan Borovoy - 2006 - 205 pagini
...kill? The relevant UN convention, supported by many such critics of the Bush administration, forbids "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person" in order to obtain information. 42 Conceivably, however, if a state inflicts the pain of death and... | |
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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 
