 | 1999 - 940 pages
...set forth in the United States instrument of ratification to the Convention. (b) Torture means: (1) Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason... | |
 | 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...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third person information or a confession, punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third... | |
 | 1976 - 988 pages
...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. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations - 1976 - 1270 pages
...whether physical or cental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating... | |
 | 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
...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
...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... | |
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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... 
