Inter‐American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
After all the domestic legal procedures of the respective State and the corresponding appeals
have been exhausted, the case may be submitted to the international fora whose competence has been
recognized by that State.
Article 9
The States Parties undertake to incorporate into their national laws regulations guaranteeing
suitable compensation for victims of torture.
None of the provisions of this article shall affect the right to receive compensation that the
victim or other persons may have by virtue of existing national legislation.
Article 10
No statement that is verified as having been obtained through torture shall be admissible as
evidence in a legal proceeding, except in a legal action taken against a person or persons accused of
having elicited it through acts of torture, and only as evidence that the accused obtained such statement
by such means.
Article 11
The States Parties shall take the necessary steps to extradite anyone accused of having
committed the crime of torture or sentenced for commission of that crime, in accordance with their
respective national laws on extradition and their international commitments on this matter.
Article 12
Every State Party shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction over the crime
described in this Convention in the following cases:
a.
When torture has been committed within its jurisdiction;
b.
When the alleged criminal is a national of that State; or
c.
When the victim is a national of that State and it so deems appropriate.
Every State Party shall also take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction over the
crime described in this Convention when the alleged criminal is within the area under its jurisdiction and
it is not appropriate to extradite him in accordance with Article 11.
This Convention does not exclude criminal jurisdiction exercised in accordance with domestic
law.
Article 13
The crime referred to in Article 2 shall be deemed to be included among the extraditable
crimes in every extradition treaty entered into between States Parties. The States Parties undertake to
include the crime of torture as an extraditable offence in every extradition treaty to be concluded
between them.
Every State Party that makes extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty may, if it
receives a request for extradition from another State Party with which it has no extradition treaty,
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