According to Amnesty International and the UN, many countries in the world routinely torture people.

Its report, published on March 6, accused the Banda regime of routinely torturing and ill-treating prisoners and of making arbitrary arrests.

Ambassadors from countries that routinely torture their unfortunate citizens are invited to dinner and called Your Excellency.

That does not mean much to a person who comes from a country where police routinely torture a suspect who does not confess.

Amnesty International asserted today that five years after the end of military rule, the police in Brazil continue to routinely torture and sometimes kill prisoners.

Amnesty International accused the Turkish authorities today of routinely torturing political detainees and said it had received reports of torture almost daily in the last two months.

Paratroops routinely torture, intimidate, and murder in combating the FLN insurgents.

Criticising the president in person is illegal under the Kazakh criminal code and international monitors say the police routinely torture suspects.

Amnesty International says the guerrillas routinely torture, mutilate and murder captives.

That suggests that General Gutierrez, whose agents stand accused of routinely torturing drug suspects, is himself now facing a case built around coerced witnesses.