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International Convention Against Torture
3.147 documents for International Convention Against Torture
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International - United Nations' Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - Report
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A Czech Republic citizen sitting in the Allegheny County jail says in a federal lawsuit he'll be tortured and killed by bill collectors if the government sends him home to face criminal charges. Jiri Masopust applied for asylum under an international convention against torture recognized by the United States.
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The Bush administration has extended a ban on "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of detainees to U.S. interrogators abroad, broadening instructions that had been limited to personnel in the United States. Despite the official U.S. policy, the administration said it does not necessarily accept the extended ban as legally binding under the international Convention Against Torture.
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In court, a witness testified that prison officials knew what was going on. "They turned a blind eye," he said. "They seen what was happening, but they pretended they didn't. In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "deliberate indifference to the substantial risk of sexual assault" violates prisoners' rights under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments clause of the 8th Amendment. (Farmer v. Brennan) In addition, there are international human rights treaties that clearly protect the human rights of prisoners. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment both prohibit torture or cruel treatment of prisoners, and states that they "shall be treated with humanity and respect."
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...Obama expanded the theater of war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda: and he greatly expanded ... war--which is quite a stretch of the conventional understandings involved in holding prisoners of wa..., which showed that Rassak had been tortured by al-Qaeda for several months, evidence that back... to bar torture and also in the international Convention against Torture both involve intentiona...
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Introduction - II. Protection from torture as an absolute and non-derogable right - III. Shift under bush: "the war on terror" undermining the prohibition of torture - IV. The Obama administration and compliance with U.S. obligations under cat - A. The Obama Administration-A Paradigm Shift? - B. Dealing With the Past: Providing Justice For Torture Practices Under the Bush Administration - 1. Duty to Investigate - a) Investigation of the Department of Defense - b) Investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel Lawyers - 2. Duty to Prosecute - a) Prosecution of the Department of Justice - b) Prosecution of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Prosecution of the Department of Defense - C. Right to a Remedy and R...
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ST. LOUIS, Nov. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Friday morning, Nov. 18, a group of a dozen peace activists will deliver an "indictment" against the owners of Aero Contractors, charging them with conspiracy to commit torture in violation of United States law, the United Nations Convention against Torture, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The "indictment" also cites former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet and present CIA Director Porter J. Goss, for violations of the same laws and treaties. Aero Contractors operates at the Johnston County Airport, near Smithfield, North Carolina, and provides chartered jets and their pilots to the CIA for its program of "extraordinary rendition," an illegal procedure whereby uncharged criminal suspects are abd...
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Treaties concerning International Law concluded under the auspices of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1984 135
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Under international law, the United States is obligated to criminalize..., consenting to the ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrad...
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Mercenaries, however, are unlawful combatants if they do not act at the behest of a recognized government.\n Somewhere in the interface between this nation's domestic and foreign affairs since September 11, 2001, a little piece of land on a small island a few hundred miles away in the Caribbean-Guantanamo-emerged as a symbol of the Bush administration's drive to chisel away at our historic laws and statutes, to rebalance this country's tripartite system of governing, and to commit military aggression against populations abroad.
...International human rights law is the lens through which Guantan... is regulated by the Third Geneva Convention5 and they are denied the mandatory hearings before ...
