Some critics also say the military carried out human-rights abuses in pursuing drug gangs, including torture and disappearances.
Other crimes were also committed there, including torture and the kidnapping of babies.
One of the extraordinary things in Baghdad is that on any issue, including torture, it's very difficult to work out who is in control.
The comments come just days after the release of a US State Department report on human rights in Bahrain which spoke of "significant" violations including torture in detention.
One Russian official told me there was "harsh treatment" in the camps, including "torture, beatings" and even "controversial" deaths.
They're working against incredible odds, including incarceration, including brutality and torture.
The directorate received more than 6, 000 complaints accusing police of numerous crimes, including murder and torture, during a one-year period from early 2011 to early 2012.
The Azzaz attack came as a U.N. human-rights commission said government forces and pro-government militia had committed crimes against humanity including murder, torture, sexual violence and war crimes in Syria, and were responsible for the May 25 killings at Houla of over 100 Syrian civilians.
Pushed on Mr Jones's claims, Mr Straw said: "Where there is clear evidence of torture, including Saudi Arabia, we condemn it".
According to Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, cases of torture, including electrocution, burning detainees with hot irons and beating detainees to death, have been recorded.
Lord Goff agrees with General Pinochet's lawyers that he enjoys immunity for all acts committed in his official capacity as head of state, including mass murder and torture.
It subjected trainees to simulated torture, including waterboarding (simulated drowning), sleep deprivation, isolation, exposure to temperature extremes, enclosure in tiny spaces, bombardment with agonizing sounds, and religious and sexual humiliation.
And the Guantanamo story for most of the world is that American troops unjustly hold hundreds of men prisoner under the harshest, most brutal conditions including regular, institutionalized torture and abuse.
Deaths during the uprising were largely blamed on the police at the time, but a recent leaked report implicated the army in serious human rights abuses, including the killing and torture of protesters.
Deaths during the uprising were largely blamed on the police at the time, but last week a report was leaked which implicated the army in serious human rights abuses, including the killing and torture of protesters.
Deaths during the uprising were largely blamed on the police at the time, but last week a report was leaked which implicated the army in serious human rights abuses at the time, including the killing and torture of protesters.
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was found guilty on Thursday of charges including murder, rape and torture during the war of independence in 1971.
He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
The movie has been at the centre of much controversy since its release, including over its depiction of torture, the links between the film-makers and the CIA and whether it was a propaganda tool for President Barack Obama's re-election.
Our correspondent says one sticking point was Russia, most of whose cases relate to alleged abuses by the country's security forces in Chechnya - including extra-judicial killings, torture and disappearances - or to conditions in prisons.
We should also acknowledge that if the life of someone we loved were on the line, few of us would hesitate to use any means available, including the most sordid methods of torture, if we believed there was a chance it might save that individual.
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There have been numerous reports from the opposition and church groups about kidnappings, torture and other violence, including the deaths of opposition party members.
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The anti-government armed groups that have emerged over the past year also have committed war crimes, including "murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, " the report says.
Saleem said the bodies of 13 people, including youths, were found with signs of torture.
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Listening to several speeches in a row, including one just before dawn, verges on torture.
After troops left the school following clashes with the rebel Free Syria Army, 13 people, including youths, were found dead, with signs of torture, Qabbani said.
Nevertheless it is a matter of public record that torture and murder took place under the sundry military regimes, including General Banzer's.
The argument accepted by the Law Lords who decided against the general in the first judgment will remain compelling: that for the past 50 years the international community has repeatedly declared in a range of treaties that murder and torture were not the proper functions of any public official, including a head of state.
Critics, including military historians, have described it as a program of state-sanctioned torture and murder.
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