Sentence examples for psychological abuses from inspiring English sources

The State Department's Human Rights Report notes that security forces under Mrs. Macapagal Arroyo's rule were responsible for "arbitrary, unlawful, and extrajudicial killings, disappearances, physical and psychological abuses," and that the Philippine National Police force was "the worst abuser of human rights".

In 2004, for example, a Special Operations unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former torture centers near Baghdad into its own secret interrogation cell, where detainees were subjected to a range of physical and psychological abuses.

As for British involvement, The Guardian writes that Brazilian officers were flown to London in the 1970s to learn methods of interrogation that included elaborate psychological abuses.

Rebuilding lives These children suffer the worst forms of deprivation of their rights including rejection, abandonment, physical and psychological abuses and in extreme cases even death.

"It was psychological abuse.

No slapping, deprivation of water, heat, dogs, psychological abuse.

"They have experienced torture and psychological abuse," Mr. Rubai said.

They exchanged charges of physical and psychological abuse.

Often the psychological abuse is more damaging than the physical.

They have allegedly suffered years of physical and psychological abuse.

For others, it's manipulation, coercion or psychological abuse.