1.   Demirel said the government is taking measures to address those ills, specifically through new laws aimed at rooting out and punishing officials who torture detainees.

2.   Mistreatment led to several deaths in custody, and police tortured detainees, the report said.

3.   Police beat and tortured detainees, including at least one teen-ager and a pregnant woman, it added.

4.   A Palestinian human rights activist was detained by Palestinian police after suggesting that Palestinian interrogators may have tortured another detainee to death, his organization said Tuesday.

5.   Egyptian police beat a man to death in custody, a leading human rights group said on Sunday amid increasing charges of officers torturing detainees.

6.   Four police officers fired last week for torturing a detainee who later died were indicted Monday on charges they used unnecessary violence resulting in death.

7.   He had said in an interview with The New York Times that the Palestinian security forces made arbitrary arrests and tortured their detainees.

8.   He had said in an interview with The New York Times that the Palestinian security forces made arbitrary arrests and tortured detainees.

9.   He said in an interview with The New York Times that the Palestinian security forces made arbitrary arrests and tortured their detainees.

10.   He denied reports that police tortured the detainees.