...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...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third person information or a confession, punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third...

...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...person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third person information or a confession, punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third...

...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...

...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 a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating...

...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...

...whether physical or cental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating...

...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...

...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...

...of Sweden was as follows : "1. For the purpose of the present Convention, torture means any act hy which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is Intentionally inflicted on a person by or at the institgation or with the consent or the acquiescence of a public official or other person...

...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...