"He told us they were tortured and regularly interrogated without them telling them why they were here," said Marwa.
I was regularly tortured".
Among the most spectacular territories to change hands yesterday was the notorious Khiam prison - the Bastille of south Lebanon - whose 144 prisoners had been regularly tortured, and jailed for years without access to lawyers.
Of course, before we had a Constitution, courts and police officials -- or offended individuals -- regularly tortured people suspected of crimes (or simply killed them in the service of vengeance).
In the aftermath of the revolution, prisoners were regularly tortured and thousands were put to death, many reportedly at the hands of Asadollah Lajevardi, who served as the prison's warden for several years in the 1980s.
Young men and women who violate the traditional rules that prohibit marriage outside their own castes and religious communities are regularly ostracized, tortured and sometimes even murdered by members of their family, village or community.
Enslaved worshippers were regularly beaten, tortured, and even murdered if it was discovered that they were gathering independently of an approved white minister.
To quell the rebellion, Cuban government troops began executing rebel prisoners on the spot, and regularly rounded up, tortured, and shot civilians as a tactic of intimidation.
The cells were devoid of light and colder than the rest of the prison, and prisoners sent here were regularly stripped, beaten, and tortured and often starved, forced to sleep on the cold concrete floor wearing nothing but light underwear.
