Most were detained in a prison camp, where they were subjected to almost constant rape and sexual assaults, torture and other abuses.

Police indicate that the women, while held prisoner, were subjected to starvation, torture, numerous sexual assaults and other forms of abuse.

On 17 November the battalion was subjected to repeated Chinese assaults.

Since his return al-Khawaja has been subjected to detention, unfair trial, and physical assaults as a result of his human rights activities.

There is currently a lawsuit in the US military in which the plaintiffs claim to have been subjected to sexual assaults in the military.

The youths were held prisoner at the Mandela home where they were subjected to vicious assaults.

Nine months ago, she was subjected to repeated serious assaults by a friend of her foster family.

Task force members heard "poignant and disturbing" testimony from people who had been burned out of their homes, harassed in schools, subjected to assaults.

At the moment of its crowning political success, Head Start, the lavishly praised preschool program, is suddenly being subjected to quibbles, criticisms and outright assaults.

Approximately 1.9 million women are subjected to physical assaults of one kind or another every year.