Mr. Coughlin said today that guards had been "assaulted" during their ordeal, but he did not describe specific attacks or beatings.

When 15 children and teachers were rescued last weekend, they described beatings, torture and abuse.

His book describes beatings on the way home from Hebrew school, and the memories still rankle.

They described beatings and sexual abuse at the hands of their relatives.

All of his clients describe brutal beatings and other abuse while they were held in Afghanistan.

Several of them describe brutal beatings after their arrival at Guantanamo.

His later published account describes bad food, hard work over a fourteen-hour day, beatings and injury from unguarded machinery.

In others, Corporation members describe beatings they participated in.

She described repeated sexual assaults, severe beatings, burnings with cigarettes and other humiliating treatment.

He described beatings when he was in U.S. custody.