Perception, practice and proximity. Qualifying threats as psychological torture in international law.

Background: Fear is a central dimension of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment (hereafter ‘other ill-treatment’), particularly as a part of verbal or non-verbal threats. Adjudicators and policy-makers have grappled, arguably at a greater depth than with other methods of psychological...

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Main Author: Ergün Cakal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims 2021-05-01
Series:Torture
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Online Access:https://tidsskrift.dk/torture-journal/article/view/118633
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