- I'd be afraid, girls. - She's really good at mental cruelty.

Well, grounds like, uh... adultery, mental cruelty, desertion, insanity.

It is much more commonly the case that women apply to the Women's Refuge because of mental cruelty than because of physical violence; mental cruelty can be no less serious a situation.

Most give more than one reason; for example, mental cruelty is generally found together with physical violence.

Although physical violence indeed occurred more frequently among the less educated couples, mental cruelty dominated among university graduates.

Both extreme mental and physical cruelty.

Amongst other things, it is planned to establish a professional team of experts specialising in the treatment of young offenders who have committed acts of mental cruelty, physical violence or sexual abused against other children.

Furthermore, the Penal Code penalizes physical or mental cruelty against a person legally deprived of liberty, with punishment also envisaged for public officials who allow the commitment of such acts in dereliction of their duty.

Mr. Al-Rawi gave a detailed account of the torture methods he was allegedly subjected to. These included pulling of teeth from his mouth (two of his teeth were missing), kicking, beatings, guards standing on his hands and infliction of mental cruelty, such as telling him he would first be raped by guards and then sent to Guantánamo Bay if he did not “confess”.

Mr. Al-Rawi said that the ill-treatment he suffered as a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein was bad, but that during his days in Abu Ghraib as a detainee of the Coalition forces he suffered humiliation and mental cruelty in addition to physical torture.