He was exposed to many dangers.

The constitutionalist received threats to his person.

From the moment of its passage, the law was criticized heavily.

Aside from floods, there were other natural disasters that hit the region.

The PDAF has long been the target of critics as a site of official corruption.

Jamal was the subject of numerous direct threats by the Iranian government.

Even Liu Xiaobo did not enjoy this kind of treatment back then.

We call on authorities in the United Arab Emirates to explain why Alrawahi has been taken into custody or release him immediately. This is not the first time that Alrawahi has been persecuted by authorities.

There was much criticism of his lifestyle, but he remains a true democrat.

Kidnapped by ISIS after the fall of Mosul, he was tortured for months.

The city was the centre of German resistance to the Soviet advance and saw heavy fighting during the first half of 1944.

No cancerous growths were found, however, and he was not sedated during the operation.

Dissidents in Singapore were often locked up and maltreated, but no one was tortured to death.

Zakharov spent over a month and a half in captivity, where he says he was tortured.

So, far from having triumphed, international humanitarian law has never been more imperiled.

He was detained and tortured for months, until his confession and sentence.

As of May 16, none of the sanctioned websites have been blocked.

And it is not without plausibility Iran did not, after all, respond in kind when it was bombarded with chemical weapons by Iraq.

The oil pipeline in the north to Turkey has been repeatedly bombed, and functions sporadically if at all.

Minh Man s father on several occasions has been subjected to coercion, undue pressure and surveillance by the Vietnamese authorities following the arrest of his family.

The law, which came into effect in August 2014, has come under criticism from digital rights groups for being invasive of privacy.

However, there is another element albeit still untold of this election the social media story.

Tima told the newspaper El Ciudadano that he was harassed on a daily basis because his gender identity didn't match his state issued identification At the gym, I couldn't use the men's or the women's changing rooms, so I couldn't use the facilities I am going to start studying from zero, without being asked are you trans, which is what I don't want.

The newspaper Kurir has faced similar problems online, where DDoS attacks have brought down the site more than once most recently on August 10.

The site has been intermittently inaccessible in Zambia since 2012, and has used Facebook as a secondary platform to disseminate news during periods of shutdown.

It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997 it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today.

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.

In 2006, the French Jew Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and brutally tortured in a cellar for three weeks, resulting in his death.

The website of the Center for Democratic Transitions (CDT), the leading Montenegrin election observation NGO, was under attack during the election day, and inaccessible during the afternoon and evening.

Facebook has been criticized as being one of the main distribution points for so called fake news, which many think influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, which in recent times threatened LiveJournal.com and the Novaya Gazeta website cannot be linked to the state but result from either commercial orders or the unauthorised activities of certain individuals.

The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it perceived domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.

Ahmadinejad s vile anti Semitism has of late been indirectly, but fairly openly, criticized by one of the closest confidants of Iran s supreme religious leader, former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati.

For 50 years, the European Union was not much tested by this mission because nationalist impulses were crushed between the two great Cold War alliances.

Lukashenka has been criticized by the West during his time in office for alleged human rights abuses and his crackdown on political dissent, which has led to lack of any real political opposition.

So, far from having triumphed, international humanitarian law has never been more imperiled.

Moreover, the direct annual hospital costs attributable to ADR s run into the billions of dollars, and this does not include all the suffering that ADR s cause that does not lead to hospitalization (or death).

Another activist, 'Shappal', who advocated for the rights of Kurds in Syria, said he was repeatedly beaten while the guards yelled 'Bashar is your God', referring to Syria's President Bashar al Assad, who has clung to power throughout the last five years of civil war

What legislators fail to mention is that the violence associated with the north today goes hand in hand with another characteristic of departments like Concepción a decades long, systematic abandonment by the state.

Born in 1936 into one of the wealthiest Czech families, Havel was one of the people persecuted because of their wrong class origins after the Communist takeover of 1948.

It has already faced intense criticism for its failure to get the country s fiscal house in order. The slowness with which the first stimulus has been rolled out, and the fact that it will take even more time for its full effects to be felt, provides more fodder for the chattering classes.

Their study found that mothers who were exposed to high levels of PAH during pregnancy were five times more likely to have children with ADHD and to have children with more severe ADHD symptoms than those who did not have such exposure.