torture

Example Sentences

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Mr Abd El Fattah was imprisoned in an Egyptian jail for more than a decade after being convicted of "spreading fake news" about torture in the country.

From BBC

Yet the singer — a tabloid fixture since the days when he dated Taylor Swift and Jessica Simpson — says he’s not tortured by his haters.

From Los Angeles Times

None of them cared much about Indiana’s tortured past.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 2021 he was convicted of "spreading fake news" for sharing a Facebook post about torture, in a trial that was widely condemned as unfair by human rights groups.

From BBC

She became a vegetarian, attacked the Chinese government for "torturing" bears, and spent hundreds of thousands on a programme to sterilise Romanian stray dogs.

From BBC