Torture
in example sentence
Those suspected of witchcraft were questioned and often
torture
d— and under
torture
, thousands of innocent people confessed to witchcraft and implicated others in turn.
More example sentences with word torture
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to
torture
in Egyptian jails and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
What I also realized at that point was that it was not only Cambodia, but of the 113 developing countries that torture, 93 of these countries have all passed laws that say you have a right to a lawyer and you have a right not to be tortured.
And what I recognized was that there was an incredible window of opportunity for us as a world community to come together and end
torture
as an investigative tool.
We often think of
torture
as being political
torture
or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95 percent of
torture
today is not for political prisoners.
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