Sentences with phrase «tortured as a prisoner»

Trump expressed no remorse for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was «not a war hero,» despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.

The movie, based on Laura Hillenbrand's best - selling biography, stars Jack O'Connell as Louis Zamperini, the Olympic runner - turned - airman who was captured and tortured as a prisoner of war.

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In October 2003 Chile became the first Latin American nation to establish a second truth commission, The first, the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (also known as the Rettig Commission), investigated the cases of» the dead and disappeared, which numbered almost 4,000, and provided compensation for their families, Now the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners has heard for the first time from the survivors of Pinochet's repression, estimated at some 35,000 people.

Others were, let us say, less tortured, but they were always expecting to be treated ferociously,» she says, adding that most prisoners lost their jobs, often because employers used their absence from work as a pretext for firing them.

The torture of Palestinian prisoners has long been documented by such groups as Amnesty International.

As Christ is led to his place of torture and death, we see at every stage a prisoner being led to the gallows, a lonely women in a barren suburb or a poor old man dying alone in a tenement.

Scenes include dunking a man in a well while shackled prisoners await their turn (water torture); sale of women for wives as one is displayed walking in a circle to give people a better view (slavery), women chasing men with brooms (domestic violence) and pirates sitting drunk with their bottles (alcohol abuse).

Founded in London originally to obtain an amnesty for prisoners of conscience but Amnesty have gone on to fight against torture and ill - treatment of prisoners, as well as against capital punishment.

In Judith Thompson's new play three women - an American soldier facing a court - martial for prisoner abuse and torture, a British former UN Weapons Inspector exposed as a BBC source, and an Iraqi woman trailed by Saddam Hussein's secret police - contemplate events in Iraq.http: / / www.traverse.co.uk /

There is even the subtle suggestion that - if he was the man - he was not as cruel to her as he might have been, might even have shown her some twisted kindness, during those dark days when an evil society forced captors and their prisoners to enact the rites of torture.

to the casting of Jason Clarke, who goes from torturing prisoners of war in Zero Dark Thirty to invading the White House as a traitorous pseudo-expat.

Jack Palance plays the laconic mercenary John, puffing on joints and smiling a crooked grin as he lazily springs traps and puts his prisoners to sadistic tortures, and his stoner delivery sends the film into a whole realm of weirdness.

Rights Under Law Double Lesson for 9 - 1 AQA Citizenship Studies Includes 2 debate sessions (torture and prisoner voting) as well as a number of written tasks.

[41] Other paintings depict confessions or letters from prisoners of all kinds and their families (parents pleading that the Army discharge rather than court - martial their sons); autopsy and interrogation reports; or exchanges concerning torture, as well as prisoners» handprints and maps of Baghdad.

Before becoming president, Nasheed was held as a political prisoner by Gayoom, and was tortured twice.

Groups that campaign against torture, like Amnesty International and the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture — along with organizations working with prisoners in Canada, such as the Elizabeth Fry and John Howard Societies — have repeatedly called on Canada to torture, like Amnesty International and the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture — along with organizations working with prisoners in Canada, such as the Elizabeth Fry and John Howard Societies — have repeatedly called on Canada to Torture — along with organizations working with prisoners in Canada, such as the Elizabeth Fry and John Howard Societies — have repeatedly called on Canada to ratify.

In 2009, Canada's image as a human rights leader was severely undermined with the «detainee controversy» when the Canadian military transferred over 1,000 «Taliban» prisoners (2001 - 2011) to Afgan prisons to be subjected to abuse and torture.