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But trauma played an important role in extremist recruitment – one young man joined Isis after being raped and tortured in a regime prison.

Betrayed in Beirut, kidnapped, and tortured (in a terrifying scene), he is then shunted aside by everyone, including, bizarrely, the filmmakers.

He is the son of Jacobo Timerman, a prominent newspaper editor, who was detained in 1977 and tortured in a secret prison; his account of the ordeal, "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number," was an international best-seller.

The justices declined to take up the case of Khaled el-Masri, an innocent German citizen of Lebanese descent who was kidnapped, detained and tortured in a secret overseas prison as part of the administration's extraordinary rendition program.

Hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a "sinister" campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab world, Amnesty International says in a new report.

At the Croisade Evangelique de Pecheurs D'Hommes church, once attended by Mr. Louima, who was taken into custody and tortured in a police station house, Mr. Green spoke about a lawsuit he once filed against the Police Department, and said it was "outrageous that five years ago the sitting mayor denied there was such a thing as police misconduct".

At first, he told me, he was being held and tortured in an apartment.

"Megan Williams was 20 years old in September 2007 when she reported that she had been kidnapped, raped and tortured in an allegedly racist attack," Byron L. Potts, Ms. Williams's lawyer, said Wednesday in a brief statement.

Since a series of unexplained blasts during a Modi rally in Patna, the state capital, Muslim communities have experienced a reign of terror in which teenage boys have been indefinitely detained without charge by the National Investigation Agency and tortured in an attempt to extract false confessions.

Omar claims he was held incommunicado and tortured in an Egyptian prison for seven months.

His brother was subsequently arrested and tortured in an attempt to get him to reveal Hiadar's location.