Severe Torture is a Dutch death metal band, formed in 1997 by drummer Seth van de Loo, bassist Patrick Boleij and guitarist Thijs van Laarhoven. The band...

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for...

especially severe form of torture. The first known waterboarding has been attested to have taken place in 1516 in Graz, Austria. Chinese water torture or a...

Breast torture (also called breast play, nipple torture or tit torture) is a BDSM activity in which sexual stimulation is provided through the intentional...

A whirligig is a punitive or torture contraption comprising a suspended cage-like device. The victim would be placed in the cage, which was spun violently...

statute". It concludes that torture is only: extreme acts according to the United Nations Convention against Torture; that severe pain (a requisite for this...

Chinese water torture or a "dripping machine" is a mentally painful process in which cold water is slowly dripped onto the scalp, forehead or face for...

Psychological torture or mental torture or emotional torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects, and only secondarily...

According to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, torture is defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental,...

confinement / isolation Threat of severe disfigurement Tickle torture Waterboarding White room torture Acid attack Bamboo torture (Use disputed) Bastinado Birching...

There are cases, both documented and alleged, that involve the usage of torture by members of the United States government, military, law enforcement agencies...

other captured Anabaptists would not reveal his whereabouts, even under severe torture. Hutter arrived in Moravia in 1533, when the persecution of the Anabaptists...

describes the use of torture since the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which prohibited it. Torture is prohibited by international...

Torture is generally defined as deliberately inflicting "severe pain or suffering" on a prisoner, but exactly what this means in practice is disputed...

White torture, often referred to as white room torture, is a type of psychological torture technique aimed at complete sensory deprivation and isolation...

report confirmed the cause of death to be excessive bleeding due to severe torture with injuries on his genitals and skull, which were likely sustained...

Takechi, who was a Joshi (superior warrior) rank, they all underwent severe torture. Takechi, who learned of Izō's arrest, wrote in a letter to his home...

era. Historically, waterboarding has been viewed as an especially severe form of torture. The first known waterboarding has been attested to have taken place...

on 14 felony counts, including abuse of a dependent adult, child abuse, torture, and false imprisonment. In April, they were sentenced to life imprisonment...

were testimonies and videos indicating that Hamas employed methods of severe torture, including violence and sexual violence against Israeli women and children...

of the Convention defines torture as: For the purpose of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...

The Tortured is a 2010 Canadian-American horror-thriller film directed by Robert Lieberman, written by Marek Posival, and starring Erika Christensen, Jesse...

1960s was in a state of a chronic mental dysfunction as a result of severe torture, Ali Madan (1932–1995), Ahmed al-Thawadi, “Saif Bin Ali” (1937–2006)...

Britain and Abyssinia. During his multi-year captivity, he endured severe torture. He and his fellow captives were eventually freed in 1868 by a British...

also endured hours of severe torture, as is quoted in Gary Webb's Dark Alliance: "His body bore evidence of unimaginable tortures. The thigh muscles had...

set out on a European headlining tour with Grave, Omnium Gatherum and Severe Torture. In October 2008, the band planned to take their Ithyphallic tour to...

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He was shipped to Baghdad and subjected to severe torture. Later in his life when looking back at this terrible ordeal he stated:...

A torture chamber is a room equipped, and sometimes specially constructed, for the infliction of torture. The medieval torture chamber was windowless and...

Prominent leaders of the Prabhu community were called together and under severe torture, including starvation, forced to give up their caste status. They were...

either as an accident, a medical procedure to treat severe nail infections, or as a method of torture. Removed nails are capable of growing back normally...