Sentences with phrase «abused by his captors»

Torture — and Zamperini was repeatedly beaten, starved and otherwise abused by his captors — is hard for an audience to watch, particularly when done up with Hollywood special effects.

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I wonder how abused the numbers were before they were released by their captors?

From the moment Louie stepped foot in the Japanese prison until the end of the war, he was treated like trash, kicked in the stomach, punched in the face from sunup'til sundown by his fellow American captors (they were forced to by The Bird, as part of one of his sick torture strategies), and subjected to all manner of mental and physical abuse.