| 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... | |
| Sarah Joseph - 2006 - 503 pagini
...agreed as follows: PARTI Article 1 1. 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,... | |
| Laura Magnani, Harmon L. Wray - 2006 - 220 pagini
...the escalating use of isolation through 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 . . . a confession, punishing... | |
| Steven D. Roper, Lilian A. Barria - 2006 - 216 pagini
...all legitimate means. Section 7 Torture 7.1 For the purposes of the present regulation, 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/her or a third person information or a confession,... | |
| Kristian Williams - 2006 - 292 pagini
...the following legal formulations: Article 1 of the UN Convention Against Torture defines torture as "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 [sic] or a third person information or a confession,... | |
| 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... | |
| Francisco Forrest Martin, Stephen J. Schnably, Richard Wilson, Jonathan Simon, Mark Tushnet - 2006 - 1028 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,... | |
| Dylan Rodr Ưguez - 2006 - 331 pagini
...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, states: [T]he 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,... | |
| 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 physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person." On August 1, 2002, Gonzales sought and received from the Justice Department a memo opening... | |
| Henri Alleg - 2006 - 122 pagini
...United Nations Convention AgainstTorture, ratified by the United States in 1994, defines torture as "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,... | |
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