Meanings of using torture in English

Cromwell is using torture to get the confessions that he wants.

China is frequently accused by rights groups of using torture.

The thriller long ago developed a reputation for using torture to hurry along the plot.

Russia denies using torture in Chechnya.

That is highly unlikely due to worries that some of the evidence against him was extracted using torture.

The medical workers said they were innocent and that earlier confessions of guilt were extracted from them using torture.

The king is using torture?

The group also accused the ministry of using torture against prisoners, saying that it was now on a larger scale.

Washington denies using torture or handing over prisoners to countries that practise it, although it has acknowledged holding suspects overseas.

Lieutenant Iger told me we never sank to using torture though he also admitted that was partly out of pragmatism.

Amnesty's Pacific coordinator Rebecca Emery says they have received multiple reports of Fiji's security forces using torture and investigation must continue.

A religious teacher at a Lancashire mosque who admitted using torture techniques on four children has been given a suspended sentence.

If he returns to Jordan, his lawyers say he risks being tortured or retried using evidence extracted from others using torture.

Abu Qatada's lawyers always maintained that he had been convicted in absentia by the Jordanians using torture-tainted evidence from his co-conspirators.

You can't make this stuff up: a family that rules a vast empire for 300 years by using torture against their enemies.

Mr Bainimarama said the US is using torture to combat terrorism while Australia is detaining innocent people in cruel, inhumane or degrading circumstances.