torture victim
Cruelty's enduring target
A torture victim is someone who has been subjected to torture—the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or psychological, typically to extract information, punish, or coerce.
The term appears in human rights contexts, legal proceedings, and discussions of trauma: The organization provides support services for torture victims.
As a torture victim, she struggled with nightmares for years.
- survivorOne still alive after
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- captiveOne held by force
- held captiveKept by force
- secret prisonUndisclosed detention facility
prisoner · suffering · scars · burn marks · interrogation · cell · chains · wounds · bruises · broken bones · testimony · haunted · persecuted · detainee · pain · shackles · screams · dungeon
- political prisonersprisoner of conscience, dissident, detainee, gulag prisoner, internee
- war captivesPOW, prisoner of war, captured soldier, enemy combatant, internee
torture victimtorturer
One who inflicts agony
perpetrator · tormentor · interrogator · abuser · executioner
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