The Geneva Conventions prohibit "violence to life and person, in particular... cruel treatment and torture" and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment".
Among those minimal protections are prohibitions against "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture" and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment".
Outraged by this assault upon civil liberties, Debs delivered a blistering speech that June at a party rally in Canton, Ohio, not far from the jail where two Socialist Party leaders had recently been hung by their wrists from a prison rafter.
The excesses in the system may justifiably lead to outrage, but we doctors are likewise outraged at the blame heaped upon us for a failed system not of our creation.
The article was shared and commented upon thousands of times, mostly by people outraged at Nickerson's views.
Outraged by the racist hatred of government officials, Robert F. Kennedy, upon becoming Attorney General in 1961, sued Prince Edward County to reopen its schools.
I was outraged and helpless then, thrown back upon a self no longer complete without her.
Delightedly piling outrage upon outrage, he pronounced Confucius "a mediocre talent," and called for China to be thoroughly Westernized.
"Outrages upon personal dignity is something like Abu Ghraib or parading our soldiers in Vietnam before the television cameras," he said.
One example: On Oct. 14, 1893, the weekly Sporting Life expressed dismay that a female cyclist had committed "an outrage upon decency and good morals".
