Sentence examples for extensive torture from inspiring English sources

The confessions are delivered at gunpoint, and usually follow extensive torture, including hanging from hooks for up to a month, human rights groups say.

She spent three years in prison, where she was reportedly subjected to extensive torture with paddles, electric cattle prods, and other devices.

In rare cases, family members have been able to retrieve a body, but the report noted that in each known instance it "bore marks of extensive torture".

The extensive torture she endured before relenting is a testament to the strong hold that Christian virtue had on the female psyche.

An investigation by The Times in February 2009 reported claims of extensive torture and executions under the Kadyrov administration, and detailed "efforts by Chechnya's government to suppress knowledge of its policies through official lies, obstruction and witness intimidation".

Mohamed Ahmed, a 34-year-old asylum seeker from Darfur in Sudan, says he was tortured by the Omar al-Bashir regime and that his extensive torture scars have been confirmed in an independent medical report.

When the Guardian revealed extensive police torture, which had remained largely unreported in Greece, the government threatened to sue the newspaper and sacked two senior TV journalists who reminded their audience that this was an idle threat.

With the recovery of large sections of G-ALYP from the Elba crash and BOAC's donation of an identical airframe, G-ALYU, for further examination, an extensive "water torture" test eventually provided conclusive results.

Earlier this year the confessions of a retired general caused a national debate about the French troops' extensive use of torture and summary execution during the conflict.

A 500-page United Nations report released in June describes a country where the government wields absolute power through an extensive surveillance network, torture, forced disappearances and indefinite military service.

A 36-page report by the investigator, Ahmed Shaheed, a special rapporteur for the Human Rights Council, catalogued numerous examples, including violations of due process in the courts, illegal detentions, extensive accusations of torture of prisoners, and maltreatment of dissidents, minorities, journalists and women.