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He said the crime was "ill-treatment in the field of gender violence" and that Argent must complete a gender violence rehabilitation course as part of his sentence.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

"I wanted to tell stories about queer joy, about bravery, about those of us who are braving... prejudice and ill-treatment to still be able to show up as ourselves," they said from their Johannesburg apartment.

From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2023

He had an eye for the telling fact: “Between 1800 and 1835 Parliament debated no less than 11 bills seeking to make the deliberate ill-treatment of animals unlawful; all failed, mostly by narrow margins.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

A forensic expert, she has spent much of her career documenting torture and ill-treatment, and has served as president of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023

It turned out, however, that Blackavar, when not crushed by humiliation and ill-treatment, was a good cut above the ordinary.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams