ill-treatment
- 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.