Sentence examples for torture and harsh from inspiring English sources

North Korea is an absolute dictatorship with detention camps, torture and harsh prison conditions, including deliberate starvation.

But Jaras reported that Dr. Sudbakhsh had been one of the physicians responsible for inmate health at the Kahrizak detention center, where at least three post-election protesters died from torture and harsh treatment.

But he said: "The central question for lawyers was a narrow one; locate, under the statutory definition, the thin line between harsh treatment of a high-ranking Al Qaeda terrorist that is not torture and harsh treatment that is.

We don't yet have a reliable or full chronology of the use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques in C.I.A. prisons, but we do know that, beginning in the summer of 2002, several senior Al Qaeda prisoners were waterboarded or subjected to extensive sleep deprivation, or both, in an effort to extract intelligence from them about future plots.

It contains torture and harsh language in addition to the expected fisticuffs, according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

Much has been written about Guantanamo and the torture, isolation and harsh treatment of the men inside the prison as a result of America's rule of law violations and human rights abuses.

Diplomats, researchers and police recruits have recounted cases of sexual assaults, torture and other harsh treatment of police trainees, leading to numerous deaths.

Hitherto, he had been regarded as a moderate in the "war on terror", sponsoring a law to protect detainees from torture and other harsh interrogation techniques and calling for the closure of Guantánamo.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Intense efforts to halt torture and other harsh coercive methods that are used in a number of Afghan intelligence and police detention centers have failed to produce any appreciable improvement in the treatment of detainees, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nations, raising questions for the international military coalition here.

He uses these passages to argue that there is an important distinction to be made "between torture on the one hand, and harsh measures characterized as 'cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment' on the other".

Like Trump, Pompeo has said that he favors bringing back the use of torture, and he was a harsh critic of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report documenting the Bush Administration's use of it.