Sentence examples for programmes of torture from inspiring English sources

There is panic, and governments launch programmes of torture and deportation targeted at immigrant communities.

Human-rights groups say he presides over a systematic programme of torture.

It is clear now that British security had extensive knowledge of the CIA's programme of torture.

"This was the world's only superpower that has carried out a programme of torture and tried it cover it up in a reprehensible way and recruited the help of some 50 other countries in the programme".

It chronicles a systematic programme of prisoner torture and abuse, led by the CIA, but with the involvement of all levels of government and a multitude of other states.

In the programme Henderson denies allegations of torture and refused to take part in any discussion.

For decades, the French refused to discuss this most dishonourable of wars – censoring their own television programmes if they dared talk of torture – while the subsequent FLN dictatorship only published infantile accounts of the heroism of their "martyr" cadres.

* America's extraordinary rendition programme involves the further element of torture, usually by a third-party proxy state.

Tom Brake, the Liberal Democrats Foreign Affairsspokespersonon, recently asked Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood about the effectiveness of the programme in preventing the use of torture in Bahraini police stations and prisons.

The actor sent Gordon an email, expressing his concerns about the positive depictions of torture on the programme.

Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary in the previous Labour government, said he welcomed the development but said he had never endorsed any secret programme of rendition or torture by the intelligence services.