 | M. Hamalengwa, Cees Flinterman, E. V. O. Dankwa - 1988 - 450 pagini
...international human rights instruments] .' (b) The Declaration defines torture as follows: '. . . 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 purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | B. G. Ramcharan - 1989 - 626 pagini
...agreed as follows: PART I Article 1 1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term ' torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed... | |
 | Yôrām Dinšṭein, Mala Tabory - 1989 - 1108 pagini
...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, torture is defined as meaning: 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 him or... | |
 | Law in the Service of Man (Organization : Rām Allāh) - 1990 - 324 pagini
...Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1984): For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1990 - 204 pagini
...Torture defines torture as follows: "1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term 'torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed... | |
 | 1990 - 104 pagini
...or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, thereby assuming an international obligation to refrain from: ...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person. ..by or at the instigation of or with the consent of or acquiescence of a public official or other... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1990 - 212 pagini
...resolved by reference to the language of each article. The treaty in article 1 defines torture as an "act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person . . ." Article 2 obligates ratifying states to "take effective legislative, administrative, judicial... | |
 | Barbara J. Eckstein - 1990 - 228 pagini
...officers of the state in order to gather evidence . . . [or] to extract information"; "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 purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1990 - 202 pagini
...only in the Declaration on Torture which states: « 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 purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | Human Rights Watch - 1991 - 930 pagini
...along with 730 three other major human rights conventions. * The Torture Convention defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession." The General Security Service, in responding to the petition... | |
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torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical 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 for an act he or a third... 
