Sentence examples for case of torture from inspiring English sources
The human rights group Amnesty International issued a statement last week calling the episode a clear case of torture.
"And I am asking the Egyptian people to keep a record of every case of torture and oppression and the violation of personal liberty".
But a pretty unambiguous case of torture and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law may be harder to overlook.
To be precise, similar to the case of torture, international law has regarded such activities as war crimes when people or states other than the US have been responsible for them.
The two high court judges, who have seen the document, say it does not contain any sensitive material and the information in it "gives rise to an arguable case of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment".
But that may already set us on a dangerous road to "balancing" and moral compromise, which, in the case of torture, has always been the beginning of great evil and has always been prohibited in the human rights tradition.
Another case involves Gary Heidnik, a Pennsylvania death-row inmate convicted in a horrendous case of torture-murder in the basement of his home, in which he cut up the body of one of his female captives with an electric saw, cooked her head and fed her flesh to another captive.
Amnesty International has documented more than 60 cases of torture in Mauritanian prisons since 2010.
Conroy, the author of a book on Northern Ireland, traces three cases of torture and their aftermaths.
The United Nations has appointed a Dutch law professor as its new investigator for cases of torture.
