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Bill: Human Rights Bill of October 2039
Details
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2040
Description[?]:
| This bill prohibits the use of torture by a police officer to extract information in any case, regardless of circumstances. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Current:
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invalid choice
Proposed: Torture is never allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Human Rights Bill of October 2039 |
| Message | All humans deserve the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment, including torture. This bill has the support of the Council. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Human Rights Bill of October 2039 |
| Message | The CCF will of course support a ban on torture. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Human Rights Bill of October 2039 |
| Message | Given this support, and the nature of the bill, the Shylock Party moves this to a vote. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Human Rights Bill of October 2039 |
| Message | As a whole the NFL is willy to deny this bill and feel that at the most the other partys cowerdace is a disgrace to our nation |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Human Rights Bill of October 2039 |
| Message | The Shylock Party respectfully questions the intelligence of the NFL representative, given the historical evidence that information drawn by torture is shown by history to often be lies that the tortured believes the torturer wants to hear. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Human Rights Bill of October 2039 |
| Message | The NFL's alteration of position without comment unsettles the Council. The NFL appears to be making very little attempt to become trustworthy in the eyes of the other parties. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 66 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Those who are responsible for the national security must be the sole judges of what the national security requires. It would be obviously undesirable that such matters should be made the subject of evidence in a court of law or otherwise discussed in public." - Unattributed member of the the House of Lords on the removal of trade union rights |