About: dbpedia:Use_of_torture_since_1948   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : platform.yourdatastories.eu:8890 associated with source document(s)

Torture, the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain upon an individual to extract information or a confession, or as an illicit extrajudicial punishment, is prohibited by international law and is illegal in most countries. However, it is still used by many governments. The subject of this article is the use of torture since the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which prohibited it.

AttributesValues
rdfs:comment
  • Torture, the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain upon an individual to extract information or a confession, or as an illicit extrajudicial punishment, is prohibited by international law and is illegal in most countries. However, it is still used by many governments. The subject of this article is the use of torture since the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which prohibited it.
rdfs:seeAlso
Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Nov 14 2017


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:       RDF       ODATA       Microdata      About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data]
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3212 as of Mar 29 2016, on Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (68 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software