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  • n  cruel or inhumane treatment

  • The Philippine and Sri Lankan embassies in Kuwait City are constantly jammed with women complaining of ill-treatment at the hands of Kuwaiti employers.
  • Many risk arrest and ill-treatment as illegal manual laborers, while women are often trafficked into the sex industry.
  • He recruited fighters by telling harrowing tales of his supposed ill-treatment in the cages of Guantanamo.
Quotes

  • Charles Clarke in Times Online
    Following months of diplomatic work we now have got reason to believe that we can get the necessary assurances from the countries to which we will return the deportees so that they will not be subject to torture or ill-treatment,Mr Clarke added.
  • Irene Khan in The Daily Star
    In the statement, Khan added: "Arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances, and torture and ill-treatment -- coupled with pervasive political violence undermine the prospect of free and fair elections planned in February."...

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