Sentence examples for method of torture from inspiring English sources

"It is a method of torture.

The report prepared by Smith's own department povides warning that the paramilitary police unit that seized this man used precisely this method of torture.

"America using an acknowledged method of torture to combat terrorism, Australia detaining innocent people in cruel, inhumane or degrading circumstances to protect the integrity of its borders".

The third round of interrogation had a new method of torture, which was chaining my arms back to be lifted up.

Because I kept screaming, they shoved a military boot in my mouth and said, 'Bite on this so you don't scream.' " This method of torture was used in most Syrian security-intelligence detention facilities, with creative variations.

A retired brigadier general, Kenneth North, also a prisoner of war in Vietnam, describes the introductory method of torture used by the North Vietnamese: pulling a prisoner's arms behind his back and tying them together at the elbows, then yanking them higher until bones were dislocated.

Before the CIA made rectal feeding a method of torturing terror suspects, it was a reputable means for caring for the sick.

We could easily devise methods of torture that would render a torturer as blind to the plight of his victims as a bomber pilot is at thirty thousand feet.

Kristy Bamu was subjected to many methods of torture.

Detainees said methods of torture were the same as those used in the Mubarak era.

The document listed what it said were Mr. Hussein's favored methods of torture.