In its Concluding Observations of 2009, the Human Rights Committee was “concerned about the continuing substantiated reports of acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

    The relevant parts of the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment compiled following his visit to Moldova

In the Interim Report of 28 July 2008 (A/63/175), the then UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Mr Manfred Nowak, noted as follows: “50.

pas francophone, celui-ci n'apporte pas, au-delà de sa seule affirmation, d'élément précis permettant de considérer qu'il est soumis à la torture ni qu'il subit des traitements cruels

    The relevant parts of the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment compiled following his visit to Moldova

It appears that it was the intention that the Convention should, by means of this distinction, attach a special stigma to deliberate inhuman treatment causing very serious and cruel suffering. 31.

Torture or cruel or degrading treatment of a person is prohibited. No one can be subjected to inhuman or degrading punishment.

  The Court considered that the acts of violence to which the applicants had been subjected were particularly serious and cruel and capable of causing “severe” pain and suffering, and therefore amounted

Article 40 of the Constitution reads: “No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”

  In those circumstances, the Court considered that the violence inflicted on the applicant, taken as a whole and having regard to its duration and purpose, had been particularly serious and cruel

De tels traitements ont entraîné pour les requérants d’importantes douleurs et souffrances   ; particulièrement graves et cruels, ils sont constitutifs de torture au sens de l’article 3 de la Convention

The applicant had been subjected to a particularly cruel form of treatment that had caused severe physical and mental suffering.

five techniques could have severe long-term psychiatric effects, that one element would have led the Court to the conclusion that the use of the five techniques had occasioned such “very serious and cruel

    Les alinéas a) et b) de l’article 37 disposent :   «   Les Etats parties veillent à ce que :   a) nul enfant ne soit soumis à la torture ni à des peines ou traitements cruels

Car les libertés des peuples et des travailleurs ont été cruellement usurpées et placées sous contrôle (...) Un autre point important est l'existence dans notre pays d'un problème national.

inhumains ou dégradants (CPT), du représentant en Grèce du Haut Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les Réfugiés et du Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels

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physique et mentale commis sur la personne du requérant, pris dans leur ensemble, ont provoqué des douleurs et des souffrances «   aiguës   » et revêtent un caractère particulièrement grave et cruel

He described non-Russians as ignorant, rude, cruel or inhuman ... Those are conjectures that are aimed at instilling fear.”