...Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment The Preamble also states the people's intention to secure the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. While there have been no allegations of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners in 1979,...

...Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment The preamble states it is the people's intention to secure the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Political prisoners released during 1979 and 1980 reported being interrogated, but did not report cruel,...

...by execution strikes at the heart of what are perhaps the two most fundamental of all human rights: the right to life and the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment as guaranteed in articles 3 and...

...human life by murder, assassination or execution strikes at the heart of two fundamental human rights: the right to life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. These rights are guaranteed in Articles 3 and 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....

...International is unconditionally opposed to the death penalty on the grounds that it is a violation of the right to life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 83 V. The situation in Tibet....

...the beginning of 1988. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . -19Recommendationa Amnesty...

...government campaigns have entailed the violation of almost every internationally-recognized human right, including the right to life and the right not to be subjected to torture. It also notes that anywhere from l0,000 to l00,000 pro-democracy activists have been detained,...

...case of rights from which derogation is not permitted even in time of public emergency rights such as the right to life and the right not to be subjected to torture, which have been so clearly violated in China in the last 8 months (and earlier). The lifting...

...that AI opposes the death penalty in all cases on the ground that it is a violation of the right of life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Taiwan the death penalty...

...international law permits no derogation, even in time of public emergency threatening the life of the nation: the right to life, and the right not to be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment. The Chinese government has attempted...