Syreene
25-04-2006, 18:22
I hadn't seen anything that specifically discussed this, so I made a proposal today that needs your support.
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Art 1: Torture is causing you pain on purpose to make you own up to a
misdeed, or to punish you, or to frighten you. But one may also torture you because of your race or ethnic group, or because of your religion or your ideas. Those who torture you obey orders coming from their superiors, or those superiors close theirs eyes, which is the same thing.
Art. 2: Your country must take all measures so that torture is never practiced.
Even if there is war, even if there is a rebellion, or whatever, one has no right to torture.
Even if orders have been given, one has no right to torture you. Which means that one must disobey those orders.
Art. 3: One has no right to send you by force to a country where one knows that you run a risk of being tortured.
Art. 4: Your country must include in its laws the prohibition of torture. As with other crimes, sentences will be set for torturers and their accomplices.
Art. 5: This prohibition applies even if you are tortured in a place which is not on the territory itself of your country (as on a boat belonging to it, for example).
Art. 6: If a foreigner guilty of acts of torture is in your country, whatever his
nationality, he must be arrested, detained, and he has the right to contact his
embassy or consulate.
Art. 7: He must be treated correctly and judged according to the law, as if he were a citizen of your country.
Art. 8: If his country claims him, he can be sent back if that country itself belongs to the Convention. Otherwise, one must determine if there is a rule authorizing his being sent back.
Art. 9: States belonging to the Convention commit to providing all the information necessary to the investigation.
Art. 10: Policemen, gendarmes, military men, medical doctors, civil servants, prison wardens must receive instructions formally prohibiting them from using torture of any kind.
Art. 11: The authorities of your country must keep a watch on prisons, police
headquarters, police stations, and all places where prisoners are kept, in order to ensure that they are not subjected to torture.
Art. 12: If the authorities think that torture can have occurred, they must request an investigation.
Art. 13: If you have been tortured, you must have the possibility of making a formal complaint. And you must be protected against threats and intimidation.
Art. 14: If you have been tortured, you are entitled to a compensation, but you are also entitled to being treated medically, to finding work again, to recover property that was taken from you. If someone dies as a result of undergoing torture, his family is entitled to a compensation.
Art. 15: Declarations made under torture are not valid, except to denounce the torturer.
Art. 16: The authorities of your country will make sure that no person will allow himself to perform cruel, humiliating acts which, if one let it, could transform into torture, such as it is defined in Art. 1.
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Art 1: Torture is causing you pain on purpose to make you own up to a
misdeed, or to punish you, or to frighten you. But one may also torture you because of your race or ethnic group, or because of your religion or your ideas. Those who torture you obey orders coming from their superiors, or those superiors close theirs eyes, which is the same thing.
Art. 2: Your country must take all measures so that torture is never practiced.
Even if there is war, even if there is a rebellion, or whatever, one has no right to torture.
Even if orders have been given, one has no right to torture you. Which means that one must disobey those orders.
Art. 3: One has no right to send you by force to a country where one knows that you run a risk of being tortured.
Art. 4: Your country must include in its laws the prohibition of torture. As with other crimes, sentences will be set for torturers and their accomplices.
Art. 5: This prohibition applies even if you are tortured in a place which is not on the territory itself of your country (as on a boat belonging to it, for example).
Art. 6: If a foreigner guilty of acts of torture is in your country, whatever his
nationality, he must be arrested, detained, and he has the right to contact his
embassy or consulate.
Art. 7: He must be treated correctly and judged according to the law, as if he were a citizen of your country.
Art. 8: If his country claims him, he can be sent back if that country itself belongs to the Convention. Otherwise, one must determine if there is a rule authorizing his being sent back.
Art. 9: States belonging to the Convention commit to providing all the information necessary to the investigation.
Art. 10: Policemen, gendarmes, military men, medical doctors, civil servants, prison wardens must receive instructions formally prohibiting them from using torture of any kind.
Art. 11: The authorities of your country must keep a watch on prisons, police
headquarters, police stations, and all places where prisoners are kept, in order to ensure that they are not subjected to torture.
Art. 12: If the authorities think that torture can have occurred, they must request an investigation.
Art. 13: If you have been tortured, you must have the possibility of making a formal complaint. And you must be protected against threats and intimidation.
Art. 14: If you have been tortured, you are entitled to a compensation, but you are also entitled to being treated medically, to finding work again, to recover property that was taken from you. If someone dies as a result of undergoing torture, his family is entitled to a compensation.
Art. 15: Declarations made under torture are not valid, except to denounce the torturer.
Art. 16: The authorities of your country will make sure that no person will allow himself to perform cruel, humiliating acts which, if one let it, could transform into torture, such as it is defined in Art. 1.