Sentence examples for physical mistreatment from inspiring English sources

"When I succumbed to physical mistreatment and signed a war crimes confession".

The inquiry concluded that there had been "mental and physical mistreatment of children".

In addition to the physical mistreatment, the detainees reported that various gruesome forms of humiliation, including sexual humiliation, were pervasive.

Would MI5 acknowledge that it had "participated actively" in Mohamed's interrogation despite knowing he had suffered serious physical mistreatment?

After appearing in court, Chowdhury was permitted to see family members, who say they saw clear evidence of physical mistreatment.

"There was no physical mistreatment but our group, especially the women, felt intimidated by the constant detentions," he added.

It is the cumulative impact of several kinds of dehumanizing mistreatment, physical and non-physical, that allows an abuser to assert control over the victim, and eventually deprive her of power and freedom to separate from him (112).

These were followed by 36 structured and 2 open-ended questions (see Additional file 1) covering different types of physical and psychological mistreatment such as sexual harassment and discrimination, verbal and psychological mistreatment and physical threats (Table 1).

By implication, all lesser forms of physical and psychological mistreatment — what critics have called "torture lite" — were legal.

The commission found that Bahrain's security services and Interior Ministry "followed a systematic practice of physical and psychological mistreatment, which amounted in many cases to torture, with respect to a large number of detainees".

The unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he was kept has become notorious for the abuses documented there by the Justice Department's own inspector general, who found a pattern of physical and mental mistreatment of post-9/11 detainees.