"instances of torture" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to an example of torture in a particular situation. For example, "The report detailed several instances of torture committed by officers in the prison."
In relation to the claim that torture is not coercion, it might be responded that at least some forms or instances of torture involve coercion, namely those in which the torturer is seeking something from the victim, e.g. information, and in which some degree of rational control to comply or not with the torturer's wishes is retained by the victim.
He denied that there had been instances of torture or other abuses.
Under the Obama administration, she worked on accountability for past instances of torture and the prevention of government-sanctioned torture.
Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances of torture, and innumerable assassinations.
Instead, it argues that allowing the report to be published goes a long way to repairing damage to America's reputation and preventing future instances of torture.
Similar to many of the instances of torture and violence surrounding the Kashmir dispute, Post is unable to verify with evidence the claims against Majid.
That is, in order for it to be an instance of torture, B has to be defenceless.[4] Is the intentional infliction of extreme mental suffering on a non-consenting, defenceless person necessarily torture?
Make these confessions as unreliable as you like--the chance that our interests will be advanced in any instance of torture need only equal the chance of such occasioned by the dropping of a single bomb.
Imagine a case like Parfit's 'harmless torturers', in which each of a 1000 individuals pushes a button and the 1000 button-presses together result in one instance of torture.
Increasingly, instances of police torture are reported in the official press, as Mr. Li's was.
