Sentence examples for tortured under from inspiring English sources

Rousseff herself was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorship.

She'd been tied down and tortured, under a big round sun.

He was imprisoned and tortured under former President Hosni Mubarak in the early 1980s.

In "Poison," the daughter of a silk farmer is tortured under the Spanish Inquisition.

Khamenei, imprisoned and tortured under the shah, will be 70 in July.

They had seen friends and relatives brutally murdered and tortured under the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

He was a scarred veteran, imprisoned and tortured under the chain of Argentina's military dictatorships, a firebrand that defied quenching.

Up to 16,000 men, women and children were tortured under his command and later taken away to be killed.

Isa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist and commentator, reportedly suffered broken ribs after being tortured under interrogation.

Mr. Asadi, a 63-year-old writer, journalist and former member of the Tudeh party, was routinely arrested and tortured under the shah.

He had been imprisoned and tortured under the regime of the Maldives's longtime dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, spending months in solitary confinement.