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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... "
Reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act (continued): Hearing Before the ... - Page 581
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 2005 - 1159 pages
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Code of Federal Regulations: Containing a Codification of Documents of ...

2000 - 1032 pages
...in the United States instrument of ratification to the Convention. (b) Torture means: (1) Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or...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...
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Code of Federal Regulations: Containing a Codification of Documents of ...

1999 - 940 pages
...in the United States instrument of ratification to the Convention. (b) Torture means: (1) Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or...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...
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Code of Federal Regulations: Containing a Codification of Documents of ...

2002 - 1062 pages
...United States Senate resolution of ratification of the Convention. (1) Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or...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...
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law

1986 - 1178 pages
...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...
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law

1976 - 988 pages
...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...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on International Relations

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...
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U.S. Participation in the UN: Report by the President to the Congress

United States. President - 1976 - 422 pages
...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...
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Human Rights: International Documents, Volume 1

James Avery Joyce - 1978 - 582 pages
...(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...
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Un Law, Fundamental Rights: Two Topics in International Law

Antonio Cassese - 1979 - 276 pages
...whether physical or mental, is intentionally afflicted 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...
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Review of the 35th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations - 1979 - 72 pages
...(E/CN.4/1285) was as follows: "1. For the purpose of the present Convention, 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...
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