 | 2000 - 796 pages
...contained 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...or 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... | |
 | 2001 - 844 pages
...contained 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...or 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1986 - 1178 pages
...torture, but also supplies a precise definition of the conduct proscribed. The UN Declaration on Torture defines torture as — any act by which severe pain...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... | |
 | 984 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... 
