51.   They are not only merciless killers but will also take hostages, and are not averse to torturing them to extract information.

52.   We have to extract some information about how we won, how much we won by, how we raced.

53.   El Pais said Lasa and Zabala were tortured for several weeks to try to extract information from them on Basque refugees in France.

54.   She noted that a parliamentary committee had been set up to investigate the use of torture by Israeli security services to extract information from Palestinians.

55.   She said that torture in such cases was aimed at breaking the will and personality of victims rather than extracting information.

56.   The international Federation of Helsinki committees said torture was regularly used to extract information from prisoners suspected of belonging to Kosovo independence groups.