They say that while they were held, they were systematically tortured and abused.
Before and after previous polls, peasants suspected of backing the opposition have been systematically tortured or left homeless by ZANU arsonists.
Amnesty International asserted in a lengthy report today that Russian police and military officers had systematically tortured criminal suspects nationwide, and had committed "serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws" in Chechnya.
Thousands of political prisoners are being systematically tortured, as part of official policy; hundreds have "disappeared"; hostage-taking and collective punishment are common practices; and entire neighborhoods have been cordoned off, and mosques and houses razed.
Prisoners are systematically tortured, and many were even raped or sexually harassed.
"We reject the suggestion that the UK's armed forces – who operate in line with domestic and international law – have systematically tortured detainees.
Iraqi interpreters working for coalition forces during the war were systematically tortured and killed by insurgents, according to a Danish investigation of the leaked Pentagon files.
But out of the sight of those tourists, in the basement of the Interior Ministry and in police stations and prisons across the country, individuals arrested under the law were systematically tortured.
In the early 21st century, a group of ageing former Mau Mau fighters started proceedings against the British government, alleging that they had been systematically tortured in prison camps in Kenya in the 1950s.
(page 516) The Senate's report confirms what we've long known: the United States systematically tortured detainees, sometimes to the point of death, and relied on the complicity of health professionals to commit and conceal these crimes.
Despite the Lieber code's outright prohibition of torture, American troops systematically tortured Filipino prisoners — most commonly with the so-called water cure, forcing water down a helpless man's gullet.
