 | 2000 - 796 pages
...In the United States Senate resolution of ratification of the Convention. (1) Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...mental, is Intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third person information or a confession, punishing him... | |
 | 984 pages
...Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or 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... | |
 | 1986 - 1178 pages
...precise definition of the conduct proscribed. The UN Declaration on Torture defines torture as — 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... | |
 | United States. President - 1976 - 422 pages
...Declaration enunciates a set of legal principles that would deter or prohibit torture, which it defines ;as "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... | |
 | James Avery Joyce - 1978 - 582 pages
...Assembly resolution 3452 (XXX) of 9 December 1975. 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... | |
 | Antonio Cassese - 1979 - 276 pages
...international condemnations of torture. It provided a definition of torture lacking in the earlier instruments: torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally afflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person, for such purposes as obtaining... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa - 1980 - 168 pages
...CRUKI. INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR 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... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1980 - 758 pages
...Paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Resolution referred to reads: 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 . . . for . . . obtaining . . . information or confession... | |
 | M. Cherif Bassiouni - 1980 - 298 pages
...Articles 3 and 7. Article VIII. Torture Section 1. Acts of Torture 1.0 The crime of torture is any conduct by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical...or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person by or at the instigation of a public official or for which a public official is responsible, in order:... | |
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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... 
