51.   Amnesty International and other human rights groups have often accused the SLA of torturing its prisoners.

52.   Egypt also detains people without charge or trial and tortures some prisoners the group said.

53.   The report, using witness testimony, charges that Tadic raped women prisoners at Omarska and tortured other prisoners to death.

54.   Yu said prison guards sometimes insulted, beat and occasionally tortured political prisoners.

55.   Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Wednesday ordered an investigation and trial for security agents suspected of torturing a prisoner who was left brain dead, officials said.

56.   Policemen routinely torture prisoners, investigations are rare and action against them even less frequent, Amnesty said.

57.   President Yasser Arafat announced Wednesday the arrest of three security agents suspected of torturing the prisoner.

58.   Six agents with the Palestinian preventive security force were sentenced to between two and six months in jail on Thursday for torturing a prisoner, a Palestinian source said.