Sentence examples for torture procedures from inspiring English sources

It is hardly news that medical staff at the C.I.A. and the Pentagon played a critical role in developing and carrying out torture procedures.

Burge has denied ever witnessing such telephone torture procedures.

And the awkward part of all this, for defenders of the military bureaucracy, is that these torture procedures produced no information of any value.

Obviously, imprisonment and torture were standard procedure here, and I feel that the constitution goes a long way to protect the people from the sorts of abuses they used to suffer.

In my last blog post I discussed the importance of dying well and with dignity -- at home, at peace, sent off by a loving family, not in an impersonal and hectic hospital environment, among strangers, your failing body tortured by painful procedures and probed by ubiquitous tubes in a futile effort to cheat death.

Additionally, there was no legal or ethical way to collect such data from procedures constituting torture.

Most important, he refused to characterize the procedures as torture, or to say that they should not be used again.

But, arguably, it is the institutionalised procedures of torture, rendition, indefinite detention, extrajudicial execution through drones, secret trials and surveillance that have emerged in the west as the more serious threat to civil and human rights.

Mr. Azam's lawyers responded that, as a politician, he had not been directly involved in killings or torture and that the procedures and documents used by the war crimes court were improper.

But in a 24-page document, he was said to have acknowledged that, in the 1970s when Uruguay's civil-military government was cracking down on suspected leftwing insurgents and sympathisers, torture was a "normal procedure" in his unit.

"I'm pretty sure there's a whole procedure of torture".