 | Ann E. Kent, East-West Center - 2007 - 372 pagini
...Convention def1nes torture as follows: 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,... | |
 | Bruce A. Ackerman - 2007 - 248 pagini
...with acts outside the country, analysis begins with the United Nations Convention defining 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 . . . information," and which is unconditionally binding.... | |
 | Ron Fridell - 2008 - 168 pagini
...heated dehate. The United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT), passed in 1985, 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 a confession, punishing him for... | |
 | Stefanie M. Bausch - 2007 - 93 pagini
...'torture'201. Art. 1 (1) UNCAT states, "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,... | |
 | Ashley Dawson, Malini Johar Schueller - 2007 - 334 pagini
...Convention against Torture and Other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on another person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession."... | |
 | Robert Cryer, Håkan Friman, Darryl Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst - 2007 - 456 pagini
...further necessary element of the crime as defined in the Convention is that it is committed against a person 'for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, Furtmdzija ICTY A. Ch. II 10.12.1998 para. 159, though see the warning in Kunarac ICTY... | |
 | David S. Weissbrodt, Connie de la Vega - 2007 - 452 pagini
...pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, which is (2) intentionally inflicted on a person (3) 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... | |
 | William A. Schabas, William Schabas - 2007 - 566 pagini
...Treatment or Punishment includes, in its definition of torture, the requirement that it be inflicted '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... | |
 | Camilla Stivers - 2008 - 177 pagini
...arguments for or against torture, says the following: For the Purpose of this Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...act he has committed, or intimidating him or other persons. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful... | |
 | S. William A. Gunn, Michele Masellis - 2007 - 324 pagini
...Convention against Torture (1984). Torture in the definition of that convention (Article 1 paragraph I) is 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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