Several died, apparently from beatings.

Others had to endure beatings.

There were seven of us after the beatings.

There have also been extensive beatings and arbitrary detentions.

Many others were severely injured by gunfire and beatings.

During Usmonov's detention, he received beatings and cigarette burnings from the Tajik security services.

The attacks involved beatings, killings, and burning and looting shops and property owned by foreigners.

Things like mock executions and beatings were par for the course, according to the artist.

Russian law enforcement has only compounded the problem by turning a blind eye to the reports of beatings and abuse.

As reported by Human Rights Watch, Russian police consider beatings to be justified if the victims have outwardly expressed homosexual affiliation.

In Pennsylvania, a 1998 inquiry into a supermax prison notorious for racist guards revealed videotapes of routine beatings and elaborate rituals of humiliation.

All five individuals involved participated in the beatings, but the worst one was Leticia Molina Ochoa, who Zunduri sometimes used to call mom .

Believe me, the beatings I ve suffered would lead a person to confess to anything you accuse them of, things they didn t even do.

I don t have a lot of memories, maybe outside of the home, she says. Inside the home, very few except for getting beatings.

I'd gone to bed less than an hour earlier, overwhelmed at the news of brutal repression and horrific beatings of civilians by police.

If you are not living in mortal fear of rape and beatings at home, you can organize your community to dig a new well.

Ladies in White and other opposition activists marched and demonstrated on his behalf suffering brutal beatings and detentions but the international press remained silent.

According to one flash report published by the United Nations (UN), those fleeing described beatings, rape, and a number of deaths, some by burning.

For that they are quite ready to tolerate beatings, anti sanitary conditions, diseases, and the necessity to be humiliated by the cops and to pay them.

Degu reported experiencing extensive torture during his first few months in detention, including beatings and being forced to remove his clothes and drink his own urine.

Government officials were held accountable for actions that were usually beyond the reach of the law, ranging from brutal beatings of journalists, to illegal confinement for national security.

Testimony from Befeqadu Hailu, one of the accused bloggers who was smuggled out of prison in August, as well as statements in court, allege mistreatment and frequent beatings.

Throughout many bombs, arrests and beatings from police with batons at the Saens Pena Square, my husband and I were the last to get into the crowded gas station.

Deeply concerned at the situation of human rights in Myanmar, and in particular at the recent violent repression of peaceful demonstrations, including through beatings, killings, arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances,

... I remember a lot of the casual brutality and beatings up that went on but at the same time we children were playing a hundred and one games all the time!

Under Nigeria s various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.

And the problem is also that after gay parades, mass beatings of such fun guys takes place, which is also not very normal people shouldn't be beaten up because of their orientation.

For about two years, Zunduri was the slave of a Mexican family who held her captive without food or water, subdued with beatings and mistreatments a torture repeated on a daily basis.

In some cases, the state took on both the role of prosecutor and judge, and it could torture the accused with beatings to obtain a confession and the names of any co conspirators.

Despite everything we ve been through this past week the beatings, the torture, the denailing, the electrical currents that run more powerfully through our bodies than through the prison wiring, there are still people amongst us who have the power to revolt against their tormentor.

And when I was applying to business school and felt certain I couldn't do it and nobody I knew had done it, I went to my aunt who survived years of beatings at the hand of her husband and escaped a marriage of abuse with only her dignity intact.

If you are not living in mortal fear of rape and beatings at home, you can organize your community to dig a new well. If you are not subjecting your daughter to traumatic genital injury at three and marrying her off at ten, she can go to school.