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Article: The United Nations Convention Against Torture: a self-executing treaty that prevents the removal of persons ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal.
- Article from:
- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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The crack of the whip, the clamp of the thumb screw, the crush of the iron maiden, and, in these more efficient modern times, the shock of the electric cattle prod are forms of torture that the international order will not tolerate. To subject a person to such horrors is to commit one of the most egregious violations of the personal security and dignity of a human being.(***)
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