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Convention Against Torture to prosecute anyone on its territory responsible for torture anywhere in the world.
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Some administration officials have argued that the Convention Against Torture applies only to acts carried out within America's territorial jurisdiction.
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Convention Against Torture defines torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, "whether physical or mental, " is inflicted on a person.
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A. officials to skirt measures such as the Convention Against Torture.
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On July 24th America, which has been a member of the convention against torture since 1994, tried to send the protocol back to the drafters.
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Convention Against Torture -- to try to frighten detainees into talking.
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These included the arrest and trial of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and the creation of a United Nations Convention against Torture.
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McCain borrows the term cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (CID) from the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT).
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Convention against Torture and other international standards.
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"This is not the only in breach of Saudi Arabia's international obligations under international law, which imposes an outright prohibition on torture, it is also in breach of the government's international obligation under the Convention against Torture that explicitly forbids the use of all forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confessions or acquiring information, " he said.
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The general's lawyers also argued that Mr Garzon's case against their client was politically motivated and that, under the torture convention, Spain does not have jurisdiction because none of the victims now listed in the charges were Spanish.
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