Torturers

Gottlieb's team consisted of 'obsessed chemists, coldhearted spymasters, grim torturers, hypnotists, electro-shockers and Nazi doctors,' Kinzer said. in his 2019 book: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.

In 2021, a president awarded medals of honor to torturers from that era.

Insofar as O’Connor was casting doubt on the believability of Al-Zuba’e’s testimony, his performance in the courtroom embodied the torturers’ threat.

By spending more time focusing on the torturers than the tortured, “Beneath Us” sidesteps suspense (and the possibility that our heroes might escape) in favor of extended depictions of merely ugly violence.

He said after he was acquitted and discharged, he filed a case against his torturers and presented his medical papers and photos of his body.

He would later work closely with the same Rhodesians who killed his mother in integrating the three armies — Rhodesian, Zipra and Zanla — just as he worked with his Zanu PF jailers and torturers.

It is among several organisations worldwide pushing court cases against alleged Syrian regime torturers, often using novel legal approaches to test the courts and the law.

Among those are the so-called Beatles torturers Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee ElSheikh from London.

I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering.

There is in Brazil today a figure, more comical than ideological, who proposes fascism, in whose name violence is justified, and who defends torture and torturers, homophobia and other social deviations.

Wurmbrand founded the worldwide organization that helps Christians persecuted for their faith after spending 14 years in a Romanian prison under the thumb of communist jailers and torturers.

In May 2003 thousands of victims of alleged torture petitioned the king to cancel a law which prevents them from suing suspected torturers.

In the 21st century, even when states sanction their interrogation methods, torturers often work outside the law.

Once he became convinced that Xiang had given his torturers all the information that they requested, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Xiang to be executed.

Torture is often difficult to prove, particularly when some time has passed between the event and a medical examination, or when the torturers are immune from prosecution.

Torturers often inflict both types of torture in combination to compound the associated effects.