The treatment of prisoners under international law /
Nigel Rodley with Matt Pollard.
- 3rd ed.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- li, 697 p. ;
The response of the United Nations General Assembly to the challenge of torture -- The legal prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment -- What constitutes torture and other ill-treatment? -- The legal consequences of torture and other ill-treatment -- International mechanisms against torture and other ill-treatment -- Extra-legal executions -- The death penalty -- Enforced disappearance of prisoners : unacknowledged detention -- Conditions of imprisonment or detention -- Corporal punishment -- Guarantees against abuses of the human person : arbitrary arrest and detention -- International codes of ethics for professionals.
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Political prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc. Torture.