May Government Ever Use Torture? Two Responses from German Law

American Journal of Comparative Law

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 661-

  Brugger, Winfried ^a  

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EID: 0347746693     PISSN: 0002919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/840910     Document Type: Article

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1. The movie ends with a ringing endorsement of the prohibition of any kind of torture.
2. See The Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as High Court of Justice, Decision HCJ 804/96, Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Hamdan v. General Security Service. Date of Decision: November 14, 1996. In this decision, the Court annulled an earlier provisional order prohibiting the use of force to extract information from the Petitioner. The Court stated: "[We] are satisfied that the Respondent indeed possesses information which could substantiate a substantiated suspicion that the Appellant possesses extremely vital information, the immediate procurement of which would prevent an awful disaster, would save human lives, and would prevent very serious terrorist