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It just strikes you how incredibly tough all these people are and the sheer grit that they’re showing to get this far, but also how incredibly unpleasant the places they must be fleeing from are to make them endure this kind of torture, to some degree, over many days. – Paton Walsh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Death and destruction are central to their criminal operation, to dominate the federal supply chain, the Chapitos kill, kidnap and torture anyone who gets in the way. – Anne Milgram	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Prior to the earthquake, therapy was not emergency-based, and we had the time and the space to process very difficult things, especially for those who have experienced torture and sexual violence. – Alexandra Chen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are bodies with a rope around the neck, with hands tied, with broken limbs and with gunshot wounds. Several men had their genitals amputated, all this is evidence of the terrible torture to which the occupiers subjected the residents of Izium. – Oleh Syniehubov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our goal in bringing these lawsuits was to hold abusers and State officials accountable for the torture of a profoundly vulnerable human being who depended upon them for treatment and care. – Antonio Ponvert III	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There is no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime. – Colin Strickland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is no hiding place for war criminals. Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, working alongside our domestic and international partners, Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to hold accountable every person complicit in the commission of war crimes, torture, and other grave violations during the unprovoked conflict in Ukraine. – Merrick Garland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you, they're going to bury you, they're going to put you in the DC jail and terrorize and torture you and not live up to the Constitution there. – Louie Gohmert	Found on CNN 1 year ago
According to evidence gathered by counsel, 160 [people] stand accused of crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and rape, among them, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, current president Ebrahim Raisi and former president Hassan Rouhani. – Shadi Sadr	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Being here I can't help think of John McCain. And how Naval Academy meant so much to John McCain. John McCain chose these grounds for John McCain final resting place. John McCain was an American hero who withstood torture, years of being held as a prisoner of war, and when John McCain came home -- John McCain wanted to continue to serve. – The President	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime, i am sorry, and I simply can not make sense of this unfathomable situation. – Colin Strickland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Often international criminal investigations begin with the' crime base' -- authenticated images, witness testimonies and other evidence concerning killings, torture, rape or other prohibited offenses which may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity -- and proceed upward along a chain of military or political authority to demonstrate the culpability of those who ordered, or who knew of but failed to prevent/punish, the commission of such crimes. – James Goldston	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Other than George Floyd's tragic torture video, I think this is the worst tragedy captured on video that I've ever seen, we're doing a thorough investigation into the tragic killing of this 14-year-old child. This was completely preventable. – Attorney Ben Crump	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And if you say like, look, I'm here to do charitable work for the orphanages, first of all, the fact that I'm an American, Is there a chance of some Russian guy going to be really p--sed and harass me? I don't know if they'd kill me or torture me, but I could certainly deal with being harassed by and large. – Mark Davis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a few in Manhattan and other parts of New York as well and it's legal. You go downstairs, it's a basement, there'd be all these different rooms. There was a medical room for [a] nurse/doctor fantasy, there was a torture room, another type of chamber, a cross-dressing room, a schoolroom, for any type of fantasy. It's really like role playing, it's like acting. When people say how did you get your start in acting it's really like the dungeon because I would have to improv multiple times a day on very short notice. – Julia Fox	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There was a point in time — I'm not kidding — where I just felt like I wanted to leave the game, i just felt like, ‘I don't need any of this. Why? Why put myself through all this torture?’. – Bryson DeChambeau	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The inevitable election of Raisi to Interpol presidency is a serious attack on the values it stands for, his complicity in systematic torture and abuse is legitimised through Interpol and gives the green light to other authoritarian states that they can act without impunity. – Matthew Hedges	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Although designated an' alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,' not technically afforded the rights of The US citizens, the complete disregard for the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution was founded is an affront to American values and concepts of justice, mr. Khan was subject to physical and psychological abuse well beyond approved enhanced interrogation techniques, instead being closer to torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history. – The US	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life. – Lauret Savoy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If this press conference was to take place in China, I, as an Uyghur, would end up in a camp and maybe be subjected to sexual abuse and torture, as millions of my fellow Uyghurs are, the Olympic Games are being handed over to a country actively committing a genocide. – Zumretay Arkin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I saw the flies, just like flying around me, i found that the flies are better than me. Because no one can torture them, and no one can rape them. – Abduweli Ayup	Found on CNN 2 years ago

It just strikes you how incredibly tough all these people are and the sheer grit that they’re showing to get this far, but also how incredibly unpleasant the places they must be fleeing from are to make them endure this kind of torture, to some degree, over many days.

– Paton Walsh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Death and destruction are central to their criminal operation, to dominate the federal supply chain, the Chapitos kill, kidnap and torture anyone who gets in the way.

– Anne Milgram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prior to the earthquake, therapy was not emergency-based, and we had the time and the space to process very difficult things, especially for those who have experienced torture and sexual violence.

– Alexandra Chen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are bodies with a rope around the neck, with hands tied, with broken limbs and with gunshot wounds. Several men had their genitals amputated, all this is evidence of the terrible torture to which the occupiers subjected the residents of Izium.

– Oleh Syniehubov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our goal in bringing these lawsuits was to hold abusers and State officials accountable for the torture of a profoundly vulnerable human being who depended upon them for treatment and care.

– Antonio Ponvert III

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime.

– Colin Strickland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no hiding place for war criminals. Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, working alongside our domestic and international partners, Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to hold accountable every person complicit in the commission of war crimes, torture, and other grave violations during the unprovoked conflict in Ukraine.

– Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you, they're going to bury you, they're going to put you in the DC jail and terrorize and torture you and not live up to the Constitution there.

– Louie Gohmert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

According to evidence gathered by counsel, 160 [people] stand accused of crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and rape, among them, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, current president Ebrahim Raisi and former president Hassan Rouhani.

– Shadi Sadr

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Being here I can't help think of John McCain. And how Naval Academy meant so much to John McCain. John McCain chose these grounds for John McCain final resting place. John McCain was an American hero who withstood torture, years of being held as a prisoner of war, and when John McCain came home -- John McCain wanted to continue to serve.

– The President

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime, i am sorry, and I simply can not make sense of this unfathomable situation.

– Colin Strickland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Often international criminal investigations begin with the' crime base' -- authenticated images, witness testimonies and other evidence concerning killings, torture, rape or other prohibited offenses which may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity -- and proceed upward along a chain of military or political authority to demonstrate the culpability of those who ordered, or who knew of but failed to prevent/punish, the commission of such crimes.

– James Goldston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Other than George Floyd's tragic torture video, I think this is the worst tragedy captured on video that I've ever seen, we're doing a thorough investigation into the tragic killing of this 14-year-old child. This was completely preventable.

– Attorney Ben Crump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And if you say like, look, I'm here to do charitable work for the orphanages, first of all, the fact that I'm an American, Is there a chance of some Russian guy going to be really p--sed and harass me? I don't know if they'd kill me or torture me, but I could certainly deal with being harassed by and large.

– Mark Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a few in Manhattan and other parts of New York as well and it's legal. You go downstairs, it's a basement, there'd be all these different rooms. There was a medical room for [a] nurse/doctor fantasy, there was a torture room, another type of chamber, a cross-dressing room, a schoolroom, for any type of fantasy. It's really like role playing, it's like acting. When people say how did you get your start in acting it's really like the dungeon because I would have to improv multiple times a day on very short notice.

– Julia Fox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was a point in time — I'm not kidding — where I just felt like I wanted to leave the game, i just felt like, ‘I don't need any of this. Why? Why put myself through all this torture?’.

– Bryson DeChambeau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The inevitable election of Raisi to Interpol presidency is a serious attack on the values it stands for, his complicity in systematic torture and abuse is legitimised through Interpol and gives the green light to other authoritarian states that they can act without impunity.

– Matthew Hedges

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Although designated an' alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,' not technically afforded the rights of The US citizens, the complete disregard for the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution was founded is an affront to American values and concepts of justice, mr. Khan was subject to physical and psychological abuse well beyond approved enhanced interrogation techniques, instead being closer to torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history.

– The US

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

– Lauret Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If this press conference was to take place in China, I, as an Uyghur, would end up in a camp and maybe be subjected to sexual abuse and torture, as millions of my fellow Uyghurs are, the Olympic Games are being handed over to a country actively committing a genocide.

– Zumretay Arkin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I saw the flies, just like flying around me, i found that the flies are better than me. Because no one can torture them, and no one can rape them.

– Abduweli Ayup

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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