tortured


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Synonyms for tortured

experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

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One of the suspects was tortured to badly that he was unable to move.
Testimonies of people affirming being tortured as part of the Bardo terrorist case were presented during this meeting.
For example, in the months before and after the US invasion of Iraq, it's clear that people believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda were tortured so that they would attest falsely to relations between Al-Qaeda and the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.
The first prisoner to die as a result of being tortured was Yousef Al-Jabali who died on January 4 1968 in a Nablus prison.
How they suffered in Chinese detention centres and how they were brutally beaten up and tortured and also mentally tortured.
People being tortured will say anything to make it stop.
The alarming incidences of torture in the Philippines came to light after the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) discovered a secret detention facility in Bi?an, Laguna, where police officers tortured suspects to forcibly extract information from them and for their own morbid entertainment.
TORTURE AND THE CONSUBSTANTIALITY OF THE TORTURER AND TORTURED
"Another problem with the prosecution is that they should investigate the crime of torture before investigating the original crime that the tortured defendant is charged with, which they don't do.
Noting that activities predominantly relating to men's life fall within the protective range of the CAT, Mackinnon remarks 'when a woman is tortured by her husband in her home, humanity is not violated' (Mackinnon,1994: 6).
The mental and physical state of one who has been tortured has significant implications for inter-personal relationships, whereas the wrongdoing of torture cannot be measured on the scales of utility.
They discuss the road to Abu Ghraib, how the US military responded to the drift toward torture, what torture does to human beings, what the torture debate reveals about American Christianity, an assessment of and reflection on Guantanamo from people who have been there, sacred bodies and inspirited flesh, imagine the sojourner, tortured truth, the religious roots of human rights, healing the American Christian relationship with the Muslim world, violence finds refuge in falsehood, religious torture in the war on terror, the dark knight of the American soul, a theological reflection on CIA black sites, and national security and a practical way forward.
Recently, a 13-year-old girl was continuously gang-raped, mentally and physically tortured by police officials during 21 days of illegal detention.