Both were tortured.

had been tortured in the way he described.

Some of those arrested were reportedly tortured.

But when he tortured her father, she gave her consent.

He claims that he was tortured without a stop from the moment he was arrested.

Untold numbers of those who have been arrested or forcibly disappeared by the regime have faced torture and even executions.

(h) Both States have a common interest in denying that returned persons were subjected to torture.

She points out that it was incumbent on the State party to use every means to ensure the protection of individuals from torture.

The allegations were much more serious this time and included claims that he had been subjected to torture involving the use of electricity.

On 8 November 2000, his brother was tortured to death in a military camp.

In its conclusion, the Board also stated that it did not consider it probable that the complainant had been subjected to torture, or that he had a well founded fear of being subjected to torture or corporal punishment.

He is a Red Crescent volunteer who was arrested in Syria and is reportedly being subjected to 'monstrous torture.'

Egyptian police torture is certainly not a new headline however each individual case carries its own unique and shocking details.

He was then transferred to the prison of Bata on the mainland, where he allegedly was tortured for two days.

Even if it were to be considered established through the evidence that the complainant was tortured in 1997, this does not mean that he has substantiated his claim that he will risk torture in the future.

The Committee notes that the courts that tried the complainant's case concluded that he had indeed been tortured.

Throughout his custody, the complainant was subjected to torture, at least once a week for two or three days at a time.

However, the Committee considers that while it is probable that the complainant was subjected to torture, the question is whether he risks torture upon return to Bangladesh at present.

4.5 The State party considers that, even if it is considered established by medical certificates that the complainant was subjected to torture in the past, that does not mean that she has substantiated her claim that she will risk being tortured in the future if returned to Bangladesh.

He wrote a letter about how he was tortured by Intelligence Ministry agents to be forced to confess to a prosecutor, but the letter was confiscated.

Szimkus, who was freed on 1 July 1994, said he had been tortured in a separate part of Evin prison run by agents of the secret service.

Conversely, the absence of a consistent pattern of gross violations of human rights does not mean that a person is in no danger of being subjected to torture in the specific circumstances of his case.

A further distinction is that the treatment at the point of expulsion clearly pointed, in the current case, to the future risk of torture.

Attorneys for the terrorist argue that under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, no one may be extradited to a country where he or she may be tortured, and they are preparing to launch a campaign around the possibility that Posada Carriles might be tortured in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and then to raise that argument before the courts in Miami.

In Laghman, a man from Kunduz was illegally detained in a commander's private prison for four months and was reportedly tortured on a regular basis.

He describes the torture as follows his hair was shaved and water was dropped on his head and poured through his nostrils he was subjected to electric shocks and he was hit with clubs, truncheons and long sticks.

Some 75 per cent of the 103 detainees had been held longer than the statutory limit of 14 days and 23 claimed to have been tortured.

The forensic report lists a number of findings of scars and injuries which are typical for victims of violence and support the complainant's description of torture.

In response to a question by counsel, the correspondent stated that he had explicitly asked the complainant if he had been tortured, and that he had replied that he could not comment.

Many of the victims needing help were tortured because of their activities as lawyers, journalists, trade unionists or leaders of rural workers or because of their work in human rights organizations.

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's contention that he was subjected to torture and ill treatment.

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Nevertheless, it remains concerned about the widespread practice of torture and ill treatment of persons detained by the military as well as by other law enforcement officials.

The certificate from Fittja does not include an assessment of whether the complainant was tortured and does not mention physical injuries or post traumatic stress disorder.

3.5 Furthermore, the complainant's Egyptian lawyer is well qualified to reach his conclusion, after meeting with the complainant, that he had been tortured.

However, an autopsy found 24 external wounds on his body, three fractured ribs and a broken rib which caused bruising to the heart, indicating that he had been tortured.

It was only in his first appeal to the Aliens Appeal Board on 18 June 2001 that the authorities were informed that the complainant had been tortured by police in 1995 and in 1997 or 1998.

C. Right not to be subjected to torture

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What you call The Drum is not a torture chamber.

This strongly suggests that the complainant was in fact tortured, as Egypt would benefit significantly from being able to demonstrate to other countries, through an independent investigation showing that the complainant had not been tortured, that Egypt could safely be trusted with the return of sensitive prisoners and to abide by assurances given.

(c) Despite the safeguards in place, the Parliamentary Ombudsman reported on one recent case of an asylum seeker whose application had been rejected and who was subsequently allegedly subjected to torture in his country of origin

However, even prior to the third visit on 14 April 2002, information was circulating to the effect that the complainant's mother had stated publicly that her son had been tortured after his return to Egypt.