(1) Other punishment practices include torture , often in front of family members, and execution.
(2) It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture , or serious ill-treatment.
(3) Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental torture of doing the whole thing again.
(4) There are treaty obligations, Clement replied, and there is the threat of court martial for people in the military who torture enemies contrary to the law.
(5) Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture .
(6) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510We see asylum seekers every day who tell us the most harrowing tales of the mental and physical torture and trauma they've suffered,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb she said.
(7) The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations.
(8) But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees.
(9) So why do we still torture ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes?
(10) Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more?
(11) Confessions extracted under torture
(12) Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted.
(13) The insurgency has led police to abuse detainees, using torture as punishment or to extract confessions, the report said.
(14) Similarly, Article 1 of the 1984 Convention on Torture prohibits torture when it is among other things intentionally inflicted.
(15) Further back there were booths where one could be alone and torture the mind with alcohol.
(16) When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit.
(17) The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated.
(18) The Government rarely punished persons responsible for torture or unlawful deaths.
(19) Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever?
(20) They are going through mental and physical torture .