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9780198255635

The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198255635

  • ISBN10:

    0198255632

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1987-04-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Triggered by the atrocities of World War II, the last few decades have seen an increasing international awareness of the persistence of such practices as torture, abduction and arbitrary, summary, and extrajudical execution committed or tolerated by state agents or officials. The government of the world have, through intergovernmental bodies such as the United Nations, been developing a complex and sophisticated set of rules aimed at ensuring the humane treatment of prisoners and allowing intercedence on behalf of prisoners whose personal saftey is at risk. This book describes and analyzes the main principles of international law that impose limitations on the ways governments may treat those they deprive of liberty.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
General Introduction
The Response of the United Nations General Assembly to the Challenge of Torture
Introduction
Discussion of Torture at the UN General Assembly 1973-1975
Developments Following the Adoption of the Declaration against Torture
Summary
The Legal Prohibition of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
Introduction
Treaties Prohibiting Torture and other Ill-Treatment
General International Law and Torture
What Constitutes Torture and Other Ill-Treatment?
Introduction
Defining Torture
What is ""Other Prohibited Ill-Treatment""?
The Legal Consequences of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
The Legal Consequences of Torture
The Legal Consequences of Other Prohibited Ill-Treatment
International Remedies for Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
Introduction
General Assembly Questionnaire on Torture
Sub-Commission Annual Review of Prisoners Rights
Special Rapporteur on Torture
Convention Against Torture
Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
Summary
Extra-legal Executions
General Prohibition of Murder by Government
Extra-Legal Executions as Arbitrary Deprivations of Life
Legal Consequences of Extra-Legal Executions
International Remedies
Summary
The Death Penalty
Introduction: the Objective of Abolition
Limits to Capitally Punishable Offences
Procedural Restriction on the Imposition of the Death Penalty
Persons Who May Not Be Executed
International remedies
Summary
""Disappeared"" Prisoners: Unacknowledged Detention
""Disappearance""
The UN Response to ""Disappearances""
The International Law Prohibition of ""Disappearances""
Legal Consequences of "" Disappearances""
International Remedies
Conditions of Imprisonment or Detention
The Legal Rules
Institutional Ill-Treatment
Solitary Confinement
Medical or Scientific Experimentation on Human Beings
Other Areas of Possible Abuse of Prisoners
Legal Consequences of Unlawful Treatment
International Remedies
Summary
Corporal Punishment
The Geography of Corporal Punishment
United Nations Activities Concerning Corporal Punishment
International Humanitarian Law
International Human Rights Law
Summary
Guarantees Against Abuses of the Human Person
Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
United Nations Body of Principles
Incommunicado Detention and Habeas Corpus Under Existing Law and Legal Instruments
General International Law
States of Emergency
Summary
International Codes of Ethics for Professionals
Introduction
UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials
Council of Europe Declaration on the Police Code(s) of Military Ethics?
UN Principles of Medical Ethics
A Code of Ethics for Lawyers
General Conclusions - An Agenda
Appendices
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