| Michael Welch - 2006 - 236 pagini
...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984): [T]he term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes of obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or... | |
| Alfred McCoy - 2006 - 304 pagini
...Assembly finally adopted the Convention Against Torture, defining the practice broadly, under Article I, as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purpose as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession.""2 Approved by a unanimous... | |
| Ralph D. McPhee - 2006 - 270 pagini
...the United States,[4] have signed and/or become parties to the Convention. [5] CAT defines torture as "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 or acquiescence of a public official or other person... | |
| 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...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person ... by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person... | |
| David P. Lindorff, Barbara Olshansky - 2006 - 304 pagini
...protected by the Third Geneva Convention prohibition against torture, which the convention defines as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person." On August 1, 2002, Gonzales sought and received from the Justice Department a memo opening the door... | |
| Antony James William Taylor - 2006 - 234 pagini
...Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) prohibits 'an act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical...mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person, for a purpose such as obtaining information or a confession, punishment, intimidation or coercion, or for... | |
| 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... | |
| Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee - 2006 - 216 pagini
...and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). Article 1 CAT defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering whether...physical or mental is intentionally inflicted..,". It does not, however, give specific examples of what constitutes torture. The understanding of the... | |
| Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee - 2006 - 378 pagini
...and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). Article 1 CAT defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering whether...physical or mental is intentionally inflicted...". It does not, however, give specific examples of what constitutes torture. The understanding of the... | |
| Marit Trelstad - 342 pagini
...TORTURE The 1984 UN Convention against Torture gave the following definition 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... | |
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