The phrase "a tough interrogation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing questioning or examination, often in legal or investigative scenarios.
Example: "The suspect faced a tough interrogation by the police, who were determined to uncover the truth."
Alternatives: "a rigorous questioning" or "a harsh interview".
10 P.M. (NBC LAWW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT After a woman is raped in a style similar to that in a case Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay, above left, with Kelli Giddish) solved eight years earlier, squad members are forced to re-examine old evidence, which resulted in a confession by the suspect after a tough interrogation but claims of innocence from him ever since.
I made it there on my own, successfully figuring out an incomprehensible map of the underground while wondering who would be in the audience and if they would subject me to a tough interrogation.
The jailed rapist confessed to Benson after a tough interrogation but has been claiming his innocence ever since his conviction.
But "she underwent a very tough interrogation in which other pressures were applied to her," like deprivation of sleep, he told Israel's Channel 1 television.
Former intelligence officials, for the first time, disclosed that a variety of tough interrogation tactics were used about 100 times over two weeks on Mr. Mohammed.
When the Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah was captured, six months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, C.I.A. lawyers were asked to approve a battery of tough interrogation techniques hastily thrown together.
Current polls indicate that a large majority of Americans support tough interrogation measures, including waterboarding, to get information from terrorists.
Mr. Dilawar's family and friends described him as an inexperienced young man, ill prepared to handle tough interrogation and incarceration.
In a series of interviews after his release, he described two weeks of tough interrogation, during which he ate only boiled rice and was threatened with 15 years in jail.
So-called high-value detainees held by the C.I.A. have been subjected to tough interrogation in secret prisons around the world.
Justice Department prosecutors and other officials, including the C.I.A. inspector general's office, began examining the tactics of American captors as early as 2004 to determine whether the use of the tough interrogation tactics may have violated laws or government policies.
