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 | Council of Europe Staff - 1979 - 864 pages
...thirteen votes to four, that the use of the techniques did not constitute a practice of torture since they did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture. As to Palace Barracks, the Court considered that the evidence before it disclosed that, in the autumn... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1980 - 758 pages
...clause, and stating that although the object of the five techniques was "the extraction of confessions, the naming of others and/or information, and although they were used systematically, they did not cause the necessary intensity of suffering, etc. This qualification, in slightly different terms, also... | |
 | Clovis C. Morrisson - 1981 - 190 pages
...amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, although their object was the extraction of confessions, the naming of others and/or information and although...intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood. 168. The Court concludes that recourse to the five techniques amounted to a practice... | |
 | Michael P. Furmston, Roger Kerridge, B. E. Sufrin - 1983 - 444 pages
...involving the so-called 'five techniques' of interrogation, the Court held that although the techniques "did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood", they "undoubtedly" amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. In McFeeley v UK,(23)... | |
 | J. Hermann Burgers - 1988 - 300 pages
...amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, although their object was the extraction of confessions, the naming of others and/or information and although...intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood. 168. The Court concludes that recourse to the five techniques amounted to a practice... | |
 | Human Rights Watch/Middle East - 1994 - 330 pages
...five techniques, as applied in combination, undoubtedly amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment... they did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood.12 European Commission of I luinan Rights, Application No. 5MO/7I, Ireland agaM The... | |
 | Theresia Degener, Yolan Koster-Dreese - 1995 - 778 pages
...these techniques as torture the Court held that "they did not constitute a practice of torture since they did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied in the word torture".10 8 For a study of CAT see M.Nowak, "Die UNO-Konvention gegen die Folter vom... | |
 | Vincenzo Ruggiero, Nigel South, Ian Taylor - 1998 - 550 pages
...treatment but: 158 although their object was the extraction of confessions, the naming of others and/ or information and although they were used systematically...intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood. (Council of Europe, 1994a) Needless to say this judgement has been heavily criticised.... | |
 | Scott Brewer - 1998 - 146 pages
...defined. persons subjected thereto and led to acute psychiatric disturbances during interrogation, "did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood." Some writers deny that there is a phenomenon of conceptual contestability distinct... | |
 | M. Bedri Eryilmaz - 1999 - 480 pages
...treatment, although their object was the extraction of confessions, the naming of others and/or the information and although they were used systematically,...intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood".333 The definition of 0 Tomasi v. France , Judgment of 27 August 1992, (1992) 13... | |
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