1.   Ture never publicly criticized Toure, who was known to jail and torture his opponents.

2.   President Teodoro Obiang, whose security forces have jailed and reportedly tortured political opponents and prevented opposition rallies, has just one opponent in the election Sunday.

3.   Bodyguards for the former wife of President Nelson Mandela, killed and tortured suspected opponents.

4.   Evidence at a recent trial of a former police colonel disclosed how some units routinely killed and tortured government opponents.

5.   Human rights groups have regularly charged Sudan with jailing and torturing political opponents, as well as tacitly encouraging kidnapping and even slavery.

6.   It accused the Tunisian government of torturing its opponents, depriving them of the right to travel and bringing false charges against them.

7.   Security forces tortured opponents, ruling party militants abducted people, and police arrested opposition supporters who were themselves the victims of crimes, the report said.

8.   Security forces tortured opponents, ruling party militants abducted people, and police arrested opposition supporters who were themselves the victims of crimes.

9.   Since the election was called in mid-January, security forces have jailed, roughed up and tortured political opponents, the human rights group Amnesty International said from London.

10.   The commission found her accountable for human rights violations committed by her bodyguards, who the report said killed and tortured suspected opponents.