| Roger S. Clark - 1994 - 354 pagini
...account the seriousness of the offenses involved. Exceptional circumstances, including a state of war or threat of war, internal political instability, or any other public emergency, may not be invoked as a justification for such executions. 105 Governments must ensure strict control,... | |
| M. Cherif Bassiouni, Edward Martin Wise - 1995 - 358 pagini
...186. Id. at art. 1(1). The Convention requires the parties to criminalize acts of torture: Article 2 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative,...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order from a superior office or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.... | |
| Theresia Degener, Yolan Koster-Dreese - 1995 - 778 pagini
...instrument or national legislation which does or may contain provisions of wider application. Article 2 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative,...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... | |
| M. Cherif Bassiouni, Ziyad Motala - 1995 - 506 pagini
...Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhwnan or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, ibid. provides: a) Each State Party shall take effective legislative,...of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. b) No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political... | |
| Arvind Ganesan - 1996 - 206 pagini
...instrument or national legislation which does or may contain provisions of wider application. Article 2 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative,...state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order... | |
| Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch/Africa - 1996 - 368 pagini
...Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, which Sudan has signed but not ratified, states in Article 2: 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... | |
| 1997 - 1222 pagini
...instrument or national legislation which does or may contain provisions of wider application. Article 2 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative,...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order from a superior officer o¿ra public authority may not be invoked as a justification of... | |
| Anis F. Kassim - 1997 - 566 pagini
...Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions. The Subsequent Validation of Shaking No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. Convention against Torture, Article 2(2). The death of ‘Abd al-Samad Harizat sparked off a wide public... | |
| Kelly Dawn Askin - 1997 - 478 pagini
...person acting in an official capacity ¿ Article 2 of the Convention Against Torture provides that “[n]o exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as ajustification of torture.”... | |
| B. G. Ramcharan - 1997 - 418 pagini
...eradicating it. 10. Paragraph 2 of Article 2 could be strengthened by a slight change so as to read: “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture ... punishment”. Article 3 11. Paragraph 2 of this article might be better placed as an independent... | |
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