ill-treat

How To Use ill-treat In A Sentence

• I also accept that during his detention, he was ill-treated; I have regard in this respect to the Medical Foundation Report.
• Besides torture and ill-treatment, civilian contractors are also accused of involvement in wrongful deaths.
• A foreigner living in a Swedish village wrote to the Ombudsman complaining that he had been ill-treated by the police.
• Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
• Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
• Chinese laws prohibit discrimination, insult and injury against the handicapped or their ill-treatment and abandonment.
• She expressed bewilderment about her ill-treatment, stressing the country loyalties that bound the gentry together. The English Civil War: A People's History
• He also rejected suggestions that the pair would suffer ill-treatment if called to give evidence in any retrial. Times, Sunday Times
• The court heard how the child had been severely ill-treated by his parents.
• At the end of the legal argument preceding Ahmed's trial, the judge rejected a bid by his lawyers to have the trial scrapped over Britain's alleged role in his mistreatment, stating in an "open" version of his judgment: "I am not satisfied that the British authorities assisted or encouraged the Pakistanis to unlawfully detain and/or ill-treat Rangzieb Ahmed in such a way as to amount to an abuse of the process of the court. Rangzieb Ahmed to appeal terrorism conviction