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The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners.

From Time Magazine Archive

To refute these charges, the Yugoslavs invited reporters to the bedside of ailing defendant Krasilnikov, who showed no evidence that Tito's police had maltreated him.

From Time Magazine Archive

A day or two before the Italians arrived the population had arrested several Austrian functionaries, including the mayor and three gendarmes, who had maltreated them during the War.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

"I'm an ill-used woman," she replied with a groan, behaving as if it was my father who had maltreated her, and whose duty it was to make an apology for it.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

Apparently he bore no grudge for the way the lad had maltreated him aboard the submarine.

From The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)