41.   Women cadres of the LTTE and sometimes even children were asked to torture these prisoners, the report said.

42.   Zigic was allegedly given free access to the camp, where authorities allowed him to torture prisoners.

43.   Following the sentencing, Belo asked the judge and other judicial authorities not to torture prisoners, witnesses said.

44.   German forces in Czechoslovakia had earlier used Terezin, a former garrison in the Austro-Hungarian empire, as a prison where political prisoners were tortured and killed.

45.   He and others beat and tortured three prisoners to death, Goldstone alleged in his report.

46.   He and others beat and tortured three prisoners to death.

47.   In Algeria, prisoners were tortured with rags, burnt with blowtorches, strung up by their wrists and sexually abused.

48.   In the interview, Szimkus again accused Iranian authorities of torture, saying prisoners were tortured and sometimes raped and killed.

49.   Israel is bound by both international convention and its own laws not to torture prisoners, the groups said in the statement.

50.   A Sri Lankan human rights group said the LTTE also deployed women to torture its prisoners.