ill-treatment
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The US state department has also previously expressed concern about allegations of ill-treatment.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2024
"I wanted to tell stories about queer joy, about bravery, about those of us who are braving... prejudice and ill-treatment to still be able to show up as ourselves," they said from their Johannesburg apartment.
From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2023
He had an eye for the telling fact: “Between 1800 and 1835 Parliament debated no less than 11 bills seeking to make the deliberate ill-treatment of animals unlawful; all failed, mostly by narrow margins.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023
A forensic expert, she has spent much of her career documenting torture and ill-treatment, and has served as president of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023
It turned out, however, that Blackavar, when not crushed by humiliation and ill-treatment, was a good cut above the ordinary.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
