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" No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. "
Detainee Operations Inspection - Page E-41
by United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Inspector General - 2004 - 306 pages
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The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W ...

Dave Lindorff, Barbara Olshansky - 2007 - 298 pages
...detainee, not beyond the limits that would apply to a POW. [Caution: Article i7 of Geneva iii provides. "Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to anv unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." Other nations that believe that detainees...
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Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge

Fritz Allhoff - 2008 - 274 pages
...status to elicit information. These limits are grounded in the Geneva Conventions, which in part state: "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."14 Similar limitations are found in the United...
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The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the ...

David P. Gushee - 2008 - 358 pages
...inhuman, or degrading treatment." 10 Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention (1949) asserts that "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form...of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war," but instead, "persons taking no active part in the hostilities . . . shall in all circumstances be...
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Living the Policy Process

Philip B. Heymann - 2008 - 432 pages
...detainee. not beyond the limits that would apply to * POW. [Caution: Article 17 of Geneva III provides. "Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be,...threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or djs advantageous treatment of any kind." Other nations that believe chat detainees ane entitled to...
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The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

Peter A. Singer, A. M. Viens - 2008
...Articles 3, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 31, and 46. Article 17 is of particular relevance. It states that no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on POWs to secure from them information of any kind whatsoever. It also states that prisoners who refuse...
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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of ...

568 pages
...card shall be shown by the prisoner of war upon demand, but may in no case be taken away from him. No physical or mental torture, nor any other form...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. Prisoners of war who, owing to their physical...
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American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia: Hearings, Ninety-second ..., Part 1

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments - 1971 - 616 pages
...servicemen to war with appropriate identification. It adds, however, that "no physical or mental tortue nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." Article 19 requires that prisoners be evacuated...
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Miltary Medical Ethics, Volume 2

...withhold pain medication or to refuse to treat a person unless he would disclose information ("No. ..form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners...answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."23) This is a very short "slippery slope" distance...
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Estudes Et Essais

1222 pages
...regimental, personal or serial number, or failing this, equivalent information. It is also prescribed that no physical or mental torture, nor any other form...may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from then information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened,...
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Human Intelligence Collector Operations

2006 - 766 pages
...form of coercion may be inflicted on EPWs to secure from them information of any kind whatever. PWs who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. • Article 18 - All effects and articles of personal...
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