MI-6 chief John Scarlett is adamant there has been no involvement in torture by the secret service.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

If we torture this one-- of course to torture,you cause pain to bodies, but the pain gets felt in the mind.

如果我们折磨这个-,当然了，折磨会在肉体上产生痛苦，而痛苦可以被意识感知。

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I'm going to rather gruesomely not realign science-fictioning story, I'm going to torture one of the two in products.

我不打算给你们设计,什么科幻故事了,我打算去折磨案例中的某个人。

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The Obama administration has made no move to prosecute former high ranking Bush administration officials for torture, but has left open the possibility of charging anyone who exceeded Bush-era guidelines on the treatment of terror suspects.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Under torture, Alexis--who probably dies of cold, not of torture, in a very frozen cell-- named Boyar accomplices.

严刑之下,阿列克谢命丧黄泉,他本人可能并非死于严刑,而是在冰冷的牢房里冻死的

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Danner - who is the author of the book, Torture and Truth - says the allegations were made to the ICRC after the men were transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba in 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Then he observed, through time, after subjecting pigeons to this torture for some time -it might be not approved by--it's not really torture, it's like dieting or something, you've all lived through that, right?

随着时间流逝,他还观察,在这酷刑实施了一段时间后,也不能真的说是酷刑,其实有点像节食之类的,你们很多人也节食过,对吧

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We've been told by caregivers - medical doctors and nurses in the hospitals - they have seen clear signs of torture in people who have been brought in a bad condition after they've been tortured,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Semi-torture for a pigeon.

在对鸽子的"半酷刑"后

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In a nearly 40-minute policy speech, the president cited, among other things, his orders to end any torture of detainees and close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and the appointment of senior envoy George Mitchell to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

"And so,you have all the transgressions which are listed, not just in my report but in many other reports-et cetera persecution,clampdown, collective punishment,torture, arbitrary executions, public executions,et cetera despite various formal guarantees in the constitution and in criminal law."

VOA: standard.2009.10.22