The indictment also cited the deaths of 46 of the 148 while in detention , at least a year before a revolutionary court ordered them to be hanged ; the banishment of 700 Dujail residents to a remote detention center in Iraq 's southern desert , where still more died ; the death under torture of women and children , as well as men and boys ; and the destruction of Dujail 's livelihood by the eradication of date palm groves and fruit orchards , and the razing of hundreds of homes .