| Yôrām Dinąṭein, Mala Tabory - 1989 - 1108 pagini
...deletions. Article 1 reads as follows: For the purpose of this Convention, the term '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,... | |
| 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...him or a third person information or confession"; "by torture I mean the infliction of physically founded suffering or the threat immediately to inflict... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 1308 pagini
...Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against Torture): [TJorture means any act l>y 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,... | |
| Michelle Kagari, Sophy Thomas - 2006 - 96 pagini
...be: Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physica or menta , 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 a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed,... | |
| Jeroen Gutter - 2006 - 459 pagini
...requested the Special Rapporteur also to take 301 Ibid., paras. 36 and 37: '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 person has committed or is suspected of having... | |
| 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 physical or mental. is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession,... | |
| K. M. Hill - 2006 - 280 pagini
...Degrading Treatment or Punishment Parti Article 1 1 For the purposes of this Convention, 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,... | |
| Ralph D. McPhee - 2006 - 270 pagini
...("CAT")[26] for a definition of torture: For the purposes of this Convention, the term "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,... | |
| Mia Ingels - 2006 - 354 pagini
...to 609. 2.2.2.3 Long complex sentences For the purposes of this Convention, the term '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,... | |
| 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 physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person" in order to obtain information. 42 Conceivably, however, if a state inflicts the pain... | |
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