He claims he was given a choice in Djibouti: Sign a confession or be tortured.
NATO's internal deliberations which in peaceful times can be tortured, slow-moving and self-indulgent has been transformed by the cold realities of war.
Such captives may not be tortured, but CID poses no legal obstacle to aggressive tactics that fall short of torture.
But as she well knows, the difficult question is whether America has shipped them to places where they may be tortured.
The home secretary's subsequent attempt to deport Mr Naseer to Pakistan was blocked by the courts on the grounds that he could be tortured.
He faced deportation from the US, but a judge ruled he could not be deported to Cuba or Venezuela over fears he might be tortured.
Every day he was responsible for drawing up neat lists of those who had arrived, those who were to be tortured, and those to be executed.
The right to family life is not absolute (unlike the right not to be tortured) but may yield in the public interest, including safety and economic well-being.
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If that were to happen, they argue, he could be tortured or killed by Pakistan's secret services, even though the British courts have taken steps to protect the suspect from such a fate.
While Obama ordered closed the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he also kept alive the CIA's authority to carry out "rendition, " the secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to other countries where they can be tortured.
Last year the Centre for Constitutional Rights laid out its legal case against the president: spying on American citizens, lying to them about the Iraq war, seizing undue executive power and sending people to be tortured overseas.
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The judge concluded Mr Naseer was "an al-Qaeda operative who posed and still poses a serious threat to the national security of the United Kingdom" but that he could not be deported to Pakistan because there was a risk he would be tortured by the intelligence services there.
Man must be at the center of a universe on a stable planet, or else the core Catholic claim that the omnipotent ruler of the cosmos could satisfy his sense of justice only by sending his son here to be tortured to death begins to seem a little frayed.
The home secretary has invested a huge amount of time and effort on this, working with the Jordanian government to give the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) the assurances it needs that Qatada would get a fair trial in Jordan and that any witnesses would not be tortured.
Mr. OLSON: Despite the fact that the U.S. has agreed not to send people to countries where they're more likely than not to be tortured, there are numerous cases in which the U.S. has done exactly that, taken people detained in a third country, say Pakistan--and transferred them to Egypt or Syria--where then they are tortured.
The original OxyContin was, initially, seen as a breakthrough in pain relief because it would slowly release its active ingredient, oxycodone, over 12 hours, allowing people with chronic pain to be able to take fewer pills, sleep through the night, and generally be less tortured by their condition.
Shocking events, such as the death in Iranian custody last year of a female Canadian-Iranian journalist after she was beaten up, continue to remind the world how dissidents can be hounded and tortured.
Elements within the regime want to jump ship from a "sinking vessel" and join the opposition, but they have been held back by the threat that their family members would be arrested and tortured or killed, Skinner said.
The judge said his allegation that, rather than arresting him, British intelligence agents had let Mr Ahmed go to Pakistan in 2006 so that he could be interrogated on their behalf and tortured by their Pakistani counterparts should be looked into.
The film is extremely entertaining a real romance, however tortured it may be yet tough-minded and confidently self-contained.
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In Iraq he would be in the basement being tortured.
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The main charge against Bergoglio, then a priest in his 30s, is that as the provincial, or superior, of the Society of Jesus in the country, he let the military know that he was suspending his protection of two troublesome left-leaning priests, Orlando Yorio and Franz Jalics, allowing them to be apprehended and detained and tortured for five months.
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Earlier this month, the retired judge in charge of determining which Guantanamo detainees should be tried by a U.S. military commission told The Washington Post that al-Qahtani was tortured and therefore could not be put forward for prosecution.
The men said to have been tortured into implicating Abu Qatada would be expected to give fresh evidence at retrial - in which they could explain how they were tortured - putting their original tainted statements in context.
What kind of twisted psychological analysis has to be layered on top of the tortured statistics to declare NIH grant reviewers closet racists, justifying the introduction of affirmative action into scientific peer review?
Are the Republican leaders there afraid of so offending China that profits from trade will be jeopardized while Christians and others are being tortured?
It will surely be kinder than those of the countless Iraqis he tortured or gassed.
Though she had been raped and tortured, Captain Wake ordered her to be shot or, if the captain's later suggestion is to be believed, she herself shot her, since the Maquisards' sense of honour permitted her rape but not her killing.
Two years later, a ghastly video was released showing a man, thought to be Colonel Higgins, hanging from a ceiling after being tortured.
She is said to be recovering slowly after she was kidnapped, raped, tortured and abandoned in a locked room for more than 48 hours, rescued only after neighbours heard her cries.
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