Exclusion of evidence obtained under torture information

Statements obtained under torture are not admissible evidence in court proceedings in many jurisdictions. Article 15 of the 1984 United Nations Convention...

The prohibition of torture is a peremptory norm in public international law—meaning that it is forbidden under all circumstances—as well as being forbidden...

form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to the eyes. Damage can be in the form of removal...

international human rights treaty under the review of the United Nations that aims to prevent torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment...

confessions of Jews obtained under judicial torture. At the time of the events, Prince-Bishop Johannes Hinderbach reigned in Trent under the ultimate...

Political Imprisonment and Torture Report, documents instances of abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military...

be described as an exclusion of certain categories of evidence on the grounds of public policy, in that admission of such evidence would be harmful to...

submit to exclusion and incarceration. The courts found that the government had intentionally withheld these reports and other critical evidence, at trials...

leadership of Seán MacBride and Martin Ennals to include miscarriages of justice and torture. In 1977, it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the 1980s, its...

police may continue the interrogation. There is no automatic exclusion of evidence obtained after such an assertion, however it risks breaching the confessions...

attempt to nullify evidence gathered through violence or intimidation in their official judicial procedures, and to reduce the level of torture administered...

police in Wilcox County, Alabama, where he was arrested; they beat and tortured him under interrogation. A 1985 letter by his co-defendant Edward Dean Horsley...

Amendment, as noted by the Supreme Court in Richardson v. Ramirez) Exclusion from obtaining visas or professional licenses required to legally operate, making...

rights violations. Some of the most commonly cited violations include deaths in custody, the systemic and widespread use of torture by security forces and...

Siglos xv–xix. Madrid: Akal, 1997. Hassner, Ron E. (2020). "The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition". Security Studies. 29 (3): 457–492...

numerous allegations of mistreatment and torture from detainees, NGOs, and intergovernmental organizations. States are obliged under the Fourth Geneva Convention...

been convicted mostly on the basis of confessions obtained under torture or written by the accused's torturers. Most of the executed belonged to the country's...

been committed under Isabel Perón's "anti-subversion decrees" (which would give them a formal appearance of legality, although torture is forbidden by...

race, regardless of geographical location. Numerous sources had reported that torture was being practiced by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New...

from presentation of evidence for atrocities in his native country of the Philippines. Justice Radhabinod Pal argued that the exclusion of Western colonialism...

law spousal exclusion, where the rape occurred after the wife had obtained a judgment of divorce nisi and was therefore unlawful even under the common...

"Slovakia: Roma exclusion and the dark side of democracy". Open Democracy. 29 April 2016. "Slovakia: Scandalous verdict acquits police of torturing Romani children"...

repeatedly violated. Few forms of such violation are custodial torture, fabrication of evidence, abuse of Section 27 of the Evidence Act. It has been acknowledged...

many were interrogated and tortured. On 12 June 1986, four days before the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, the state of emergency was extended to...

its lifeboats with machine guns. After interrogating the crew under threat of torture, its commander threw them back into the sea without their lifeboats...

this was appropriate "to the service of God and the good of the Faith", just as reports obtained under torture were accepted. The regulations stipulated...

Allah—except with ˹legal˺ right,1 nor commit fornication. And whoever does ˹any of˺ this will face the penalty." [Quran 25:68] The term assassin derives from...

The two seamen accused Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy Esek Hopkins of torturing British prisoners of war. The Congress dismissed Hopkins and...