In addition to the regular punishments there are special forms of arbitrary ill-treatment.
The UN said government forces had been responsible for the arrest, arbitrary detention, ill treatment and torture of children.
Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby, says the tiny Gulf nation has increased its use of arbitrary detention, ill treatment and torture of dissidents, including juveniles, over the past year.The lobby says the climate of "international impunity" is partly to blame.
"Mass arbitrary arrests and ill treatment of protesters are a serious and growing concern in Honduras today," Esther Major, Amnesty's Central American researcher, said in a statement.
"Turkey is understandably concerned with public security at the moment, but no circumstances can ever justify torture and other ill treatment or arbitrary detention," said Amnesty's Europe director, John Dalhuisen.
In addition, Ms. Samar said, she had received reports of "arbitrary arrests, detention, as well as allegations of ill treatment and torture of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers by security forces".
And what about the ill treatment of women?
You don't put up with ill treatment from others.
During those years, there were 11,334 accusations of ill treatment by cops.
But vindictive prosecutors, federal bureaucrats and a damaged system perpetuated my ill treatment for decades.
Burma is not the only country to single out Muslim minorities for ill treatment.
