From Skinned Cats to Angels in Fur: Feline Traces and the Start of the Cat-Human Relationship in Victorian England by Hilda Kean

“…Although the introduction of initial animal welfare legislation improved the relative condition of some forms of cattle and horses, cats continued in the early decades to be skinned and tortured. By analysing both court and newspaper reports, as well as parliamentary procedures, the lives of a range of cats were being started to be changed later in the nineteenth century. …”
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The poetic rite of rebirth in Sylvia Plath's “Lady Lazarus" by Sandra Novkinic

“…She is a female Lazarus who died because of great suffering that the poet equates with the suffering of the Jews who were tortured during World War II. She is a victim of male cruelty, but also a new woman who rises from the flames. …”
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Italian Immigration, Crime, and Police Actions in Uruguay: The Volpi-Patroni Case (1882) by Nicolás Duffau

“…In March 1882, the Kingdom of Italy suspended diplomatic relations with the Republic of Uruguay because two Italian immigrants accused of murder, Raffaele Volpi and Vicenzo Patroni, had been tortured by the Uruguayan police. At that time, criminals and marginalized people were commonly stigmatized and persecuted by the authorities, who considered them to be blocking the political and cultural development of »modern« Uruguay. …”

Mining DEOPS records: big data's insights into dictatorship by Navarro, D, Prati, R

“…The data to be analyzed consists of digitized images of records from DEOPS/SP (São Paulo State Department of Political and Social Order), an emblematic police agency which have monitored (and in some cases, harassed and tortured) hundreds of thousands Brazilian citizens during that period. …”

Sub-connected structure hybrid precoding for millimeter-wave NOMA communications by Badrudeen, A. A., Leow, C. Y., Won, S. H.

“…Sub-connected structure hybrid beamforming (SCS-HBF) exploiting both successful interference cancellation and zero-forcing (ZF) is tortured by frail performance when deployed for millimeter-Wave non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system in a complete non-line of sight (NLOS) environment. …”

As trajetórias de Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira e Angela Maria Silva Arruda entre revoluções e feminismos by Dayane Nascimento Sobreira

“…Eleonora Menicucci and Angela Arruda follow trajectories committed with the creation of new methods of subjectification and a more philogynistic world. Arrested and tortured, Eleonora Menicucci had previous contact with the feminist movement in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil; leaving for the city of João Pessoa, Brazil; where she soon helped to found the Feminist Group Woman Maria, the first in the state. …”
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THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND CUBA: THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION REVISITED by Gary Prevost

“…The tortured 50-year relationship between the revolutionary government of Cuba and the United States has been the focal point of much political and scholarly analysis over a long number of years. …”
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The position of Islamic law on terrorism by Saad Salih Shagtee

“…In order to take this term - terrorism - a pretext in the killing and displacement of Muslims and besieged and tortured them,  aIf a free voice is rising to condemn of this propaganda, and this misleading, quickly faced with the charge of collusion with terrorism and support terrorists and the seriousness of this disinformation organized and try to respond to that distortion and those The falsehoods by sending a message to the West to show them that Islam is not from the making of terrorism, but it rejects and denies it and does not accept it, whether among Muslims themselves or between Muslims and other peoples regardless of their religion or nationality as long as they respect Muslims, as well as the status of laws in Muslim countries,  have agreed in principle with the Islamic Sharia law in the fight against terrorism and discarded and rejected, is accepted then the whole say that Islam and Muslims are the source of terrorism…”
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Les meurtres commis par des enfants en France au XIXe siècle : une étude sociale by Thomas Fadlallah

“…On the 12th of February 1992 in Bootle, near Liverpool, two ten-year-old boys abducted, tortured and murdered James Patrick Bulger, aged two. …”
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The fight of João Amaro: a rural worker in fight for rights (Pernambuco, years 1960) by Márcio Ananias Ferreira Vilela, Marcelo Góes Tavares

“…Or it may have greater implications for the accused when considering the civil and military regime in Brazil, and the workers may be arrested and tortured, and in some cases even killed by the security and information agencies. …”
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Spregelburd’s Stubbornness by Benjamin Bollig

“…Some may recognise him as a screen actor, playing the proverbially tortured political artist, gruff husband to the eponymous heroine, and love rival to SamHuntington’s lead in Nico Casavecchia’s Finding Sofia (2016).…”
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Take the sugar by Hare, Caspar

“…The attitude may be turbulent, naturally described as one of ‘tortured ambivalence’…”
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Realiti kes nirmala bonat dalam berita akhbar utusan malaysia dan Waspada: satu analisis pembingkaian. by Butsi, Febry Ichwan

“…Nowadays, many Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (TKI) who had been working officially in Malaysia gained their succeses and lived comfortable life, although there are some of them are unfortunate for example, some TKI being tortured, badly threatened and experienced injustice while working here. …”
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The (In)visibility of Racialized Border Violence? A Ukrainian Killed in Lisbon Airport by Júlia Garraio, Olga Solovova, Sofia José Santos

“…<p class="first" id="d3339407e103">On March 12, 2020, the Ukrainian citizen Ihor Homenyuk died, having been abused and tortured while in the custody of the Foreigners and Borders Office in Lisbon airport. …”
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« The arrested step », Nightwood de Djuna Barnes : « Une image est une halte que fait l’esprit entre deux incertitudes » by Christiane Guillois

“…The tortured universe of Nightwood engages in a fundamental questioning of the common notion of man’s duality. …”
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Politica e censura nella Francia di Louis XIV: Chavigny de La Bretonnière by Chiara Mainardi

“…As a response to his critics and claims, Chavigny was kidnapped, tortured and imprisoned for life. His name disappeared from history.…”
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Two Seals of the Strategоs of Asia Minor’s Themes from the North Black Sea by Valeriy P. Stepanenko

“…Fers took part in the plot against emperor Basil II and was tortured (1022), Tornik Varazvatche later was the strategos of Edessa. …”
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The Sanctuaries for Witch-hunt Victims in Northern Ghana by Felix Riedel

“…Most accusations disrupted productive relationship and reaped no benefit for the accusers. Victims are often tortured to produce confessions. The accusers rely on dreams for singling out the accused, while the latter are then forced to chicken- and potion-ordeals at diverse shrines to determine their guilt or innocence. …”
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The Sanctuaries for Witch-hunt Victims in Northern Ghana by Felix Riedel

“…Most accusations disrupted productive relationship and reaped no benefit for the accusers. Victims are often tortured to produce confessions. The accusers rely on dreams for singling out the accused, while the latter are then forced to chicken- and potion-ordeals at diverse shrines to determine their guilt or innocence. …”
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“Incisive, Dissonant” Rationality vs. Aesthetic Modernism: Hedenius and Trotzig by Ulf Olsson

“…The body in Trotzig’s work is also the tortured body of Christ. With the Swedish welfare state as a point of reference, this article explores the collision between what can be called a “rational modernism” and aesthetic modernism: Hedenius called Trotzig’s book “evil,” and Trotzig, when she commented upon this almost three decades later, saw Hedenius’s review as an authoritarian assault.…”
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