Human Rights That Are Applicable to All
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other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment made known to them through
official channels or coming from any other reliable source of information;
(16.7) - will act upon the understanding that preserving and guaranteeing the life and
security of any individual subjected to any form of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment will be the sole criterion in determining the urgency and
priorities to be accorded in taking appropriate remedial action; and, therefore, the consideration of any cases of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment within the framework of any other international body or mechanism may not be
invoked as a reason for refraining from consideration and appropriate action in accordance with the agreed measures and procedures for the effective implementation of the
commitments relating to the human dimension of the CSCE.
Paris 1990 (A New Era of Democracy, Peace and Unity)
We affirm that, without discrimination (…) no one will be:
(…)
subject to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
(…)
Moscow 1991
(23.1) The participating States will ensure that
(…)
(vii) effective measures will be adopted, if this has not already been done, to provide
that law enforcement bodies do not take undue advantage of the situation of a detained
or imprisoned person for the purpose of compelling him to confess, or otherwise to
incriminate himself, or to force him to testify against any other person;
(viii) the duration of any interrogation and the intervals between them will be recorded
and certified, consistent with domestic law;
(ix) a detailed person or his counsel will have the right to make a request or complaint
regarding his treatment, in particular when torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment has been applied, to the authorities responsible for the administration
of the place of detention and to higher authorities, and when necessary, to appropriate
authorities vested with reviewing or remedial power;
(x) such request or complaint will be promptly dealt with and replied to without undue
delay; if the request or complaint is rejected or in case of inordinate delay, the complainant will be entitled to bring it before a judicial or other authority; neither the detained
or imprisoned person nor any complainant will suffer prejudice for making a request or
complaint;
100 OSCE Human Dimension Commitments
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