'torturers' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to people who torture or mistreat others, usually as a form of punishment. For example: "The prisoners of war were subjected to cruel treatment by their captors, who were experienced torturers."
In short, torturers who torture human beings do so with the (realised) intention of substantially curtailing the autonomy of their victims.
An official policy of torture corrupts the torturers and the people charged with overseeing it.
Yet there is a long tradition in the United States against interpreting laws in such a way as to render them meaningless.The memo's third argument is that, in rare cases when acts are so egregious that they amount to torture, and do not challenge presidential power, torturers are still able to claim immunity.
Human-rights watchdogs began by documenting torture; now they press governments to impose sanctions on the torturers.
On the other hand, torture does not necessarily involve killing, let alone murder, and indeed torturers do not necessarily have the power of life and death over their victims.
"In order to uproot the systemic embedded abuse that has allowed for the creation of such 'black sites' like that of Homan Square as well as police torturers like that of Jon Burge, transparent and persistent investigation is the first step of many," a statement attributed to the group read.
As had already been the case after the military coups in Brazil in 1964 and then in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina, and as was to be the case latterly in modern Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, the military and police torturers were ready with their electrodes, thumbscrews and waterboarding equipment to defend "western Christian civilisation".
As British people conduct candlelit vigils for prisoners of conscience, as we proudly proclaim a reinvigorated belief in freedom of speech in the face of terrorism and oppression, our own government is betraying every one of us in a shoddy chase for a few filthy quid from the executioners, the torturers and the oppressors.
He is also a stark and eloquent defender of the Syrian revolutionaries who set out to overthrow Assad back in 2011, first through civic resistance and later taking up arms to defend themselves from the onslaught of Assad's army and torturers.
A law to punish torturers has been adopted.
Still, the ability to sue foreigners in American courts for human-rights violations is a weapon that human-rights campaigners consider increasingly valuable.Cases have been won against, among others, Ethiopian torturers, South American military chiefs, a leader in Rwanda's genocide, an Indonesian general and a Haitian dictator.
