1.   Last June, she was tear-gassed and beaten during a melee at the Esmor detention center, where immigration authorities later concluded that guards had abused detainees.

2.   The federal government canceled its contract with the private operator, Esmor Correctional Services Corp., after a report alleged that detainees were abused by poorly trained guards.

3.   An Amnesty International delegation investigating reports of Russian soldiers abusing Chechen detainees claims to have evidence of beatings of prisoners.

4.   Although torture and physical abuse are illegal in the Caribbean country, cases of security service personnel abusing detainees were common, it said.

5.   At the time, the U.S. command denied that those detainees had been abused.

6.   Israel has repeatedly denied it systematically abuses Palestinian detainees to extract information.

7.   MOSCOW -- An Amnesty International delegation investigating reports of Russians abusing Chechen detainees claims to have evidence of beatings of prisoners.

8.   Security forces routinely tortured, beat, raped, and otherwise abused detainees.

9.   Several policemen were tried last year on charges of abusing detainees during interrogation.

10.   The case is being closely watched by human rights groups which have frequently claimed that Turkey is lax in punishing security officials accused of abusing detainees.