 | 2005 - 1174 pagini
...and provisos contained in -he United States Senate resolution of ratification of the Convention. <li Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain...suffering, whether Physical or mental, is intentionally inHicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third jerson information or... | |
 | Keir Starmer, Theodora A. Christou - 2005 - 1486 pagini
...Degrading Treatment and Punishment 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 purposes as obtaining from him or... | |
 | Mark Lewis Taylor - 2005 - 212 pagini
...star in post-9/11 USA shows its brutal effectiveness by embracing the practice of torture. 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 him or... | |
 | Karen J. Greenberg - 2005 - 440 pagini
...inflict) severe physical or mental pain or suffering. Compare CAT art. 1(1) ("the term 'torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted'") (emphasis added) with 18 USC § 2340 ("'torture' means an act . . . specifically intended to inflict... | |
 | Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel - 2005 - 1306 pagini
...preventing and punishing torture by setting forth an explicit definition of torture: . . . torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally infficted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession,... | |
 | Christopher C. Joyner - 2005 - 388 pagini
...committed by government officials or others acting in an official capacity. The convention defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intensely inflicted on a person" for the purpose of "obtaining from him or a third person information... | |
 | Conner O'Seanery - 2006 - 148 pagini
...techniques below are provided in jest. Lighten up, already. In the Convention Against Torture of 1984, torture is defined as "any act by which severe pain...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... | |
 | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Avakov - 2006 - 518 pagini
...(February 12-13, 2005). of the conventions to which the United States is a signatory 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." 2 "The same convention declares, "No exceptional circumstances,... | |
 | David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Bice Maiguashca - 2005 - 268 pagini
...against Torture, a treaty ratified by the United States. Article 1 of the Convention defines torture as: [A]ny 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... | |
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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... 
