Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 17
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Strongly urges States to ensure that no statement that is established to have been made as a result of torture is invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made, encourages States to extend that prohibition to statements made as a result of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and recognizes that adequate corroboration of statements, including confessions, used as evidence in any proceedings constitutes one safeguard for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
United Nations General Assembly
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
Consensus
Thèmes
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Personnes concernées
All
Année
2013
Type de paragraphe
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2013), A/RES/68/156, OP 17.