Animal-rights groups have charged in complaints and lawsuits that the dogs are treated inhumanely, but the company denies this, and the complaints and lawsuits have been dismissed.

They can, apparently, be treated inhumanely.

Bracegirdle had been working among the plantation labourers, who were treated inhumanely, receiving very little health care, even less education and living in 'line rooms' which were worse than cattle sheds in England.

It has been the target of complaints, demonstrations and lawsuits by groups charging that the dogs are treated inhumanely.

In his only interview in prison with a state-run magazine, Mr. Liu asserted he had been "inhumanely treated" and "cruelly tortured."

A longstanding issue is whether these animals are treated humanely or inhumanely by shippers, stockyards, and packers while they are being moved or held for slaughter.

"Bears are being inhumanely treated and bear farming must end in the near future," Dr Feng will tell the conference in Westminster.

In this case, it is an undeniable fact that these 33 defenders of the Copts were treated inhumanely in prison.

"I know nothing about money being stolen or people being treated inhumanely," Mr. Sutton then said in English.