11.   Or torturing prisoners to save lives?

12.   Russian officials and media portray him as a merciless and brutal guerrilla, with a taste for torturing prisoners and mutilating bodies.

13.   Sivac said that even soldiers who tortured prisoners were known occasionally to perform acts of kindness.

14.   Palestinian police arrested the head of Palestinian military intelligence in Nablus and two interrogators suspected of torturing a prisoner to death, a police official said Sunday.

15.   Palestinian police arrested the head of Palestinian military intelligence in Nablus and three interrogators suspected of torturing a prisoner to death, a police official said Sunday.

16.   Raikka said the group wants the Finns to take a stronger stand, claiming that China jails hundreds of thousands of people without charging them and systematically tortures prisoners.

17.   An aging former communist-era investigator on trial in Poland for allegedly torturing prisoners has died, the presiding judge said Friday.

18.   An American spy in World War II described how the Nazis tortured their prisoners in his testimony Thursday at the war crimes retrial of an ex-SS officer.

19.   Amnesty International expressed concern Tuesday over reports that political prisoners are being tortured at a detention center in the Maldives.

20.   An international human rights group accused Russian troops in Chechnya today of torturing prisoners and attacking civilians.