Sentence examples for scope of torture from inspiring English sources

Feinstein's expressed greatest outrage over what she claimed were misleading statements by successive CIA Directors as to the scope of torture and as to its effectiveness.

Brazil's National Truth Commission has announced the results of an investigation of crimes committed by the country's military dictatorship, revealing the scope of torture, killings and disappearances carried out from 1964 to 1985 and calling for the perpetrators to be punished.

Now that we are beginning to acknowledge the full scope of the torture program, the United States can't justify continuing to prosecute prisoners in a system that was designed to whitewash the torture program and prevent the public from learning of its full scale.

But the second Lords' decision, on March 24 , 1999 was even more assertive on the principle than the first one, though it drastically reduced the number of charges and narrowed their scope to torture and conspiracy to torture.

It is critical that Congress examine the nature and scope of the Bush torture program to determine what went wrong to ensure that it is not repeated.

The latest revelations from the APA report are only a partial accounting of the scope of our government's torture program.

And despite CIA insistence that the program was limited in scope, Senate investigators conclude that the use of torture was much more widespread than previously thought.

Does he not include in his definition of "the protection of individuals against the state" the prevention of indefinite detention without trial, the reduction in the scope of so-called "control orders", the absolute prohibition of torture, the requirement that evidence procured by torture must not be admitted in court or the reversal of the onus of proof to protect mental health detainees?

The administration must change course now by broadening the scope of the criminal investigation to include senior officials who authorized or encouraged the abuse, and by allowing the victims of torture to have their day in court.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs had argued that the contractors were not immune because the alleged torture fell outside the scope of the work they had agreed to perform.

The object of torture is torture.