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...month after the Naadi verdict, in a casual conversation with law colleagues, Nouman said the fateful words, "There's no justice in this country." Someone informed the police, and within hours she was arrested for contempt of court. Taken to al-Zafaraniya police station, she was, she says, brutally beaten for several days in a row, raped and had a hot candle forced into her rectum. "I kept telling the police, 'You can't do this to me. I'm a lawyer,'" she says, smiling sadly at her own naiveté. "They said, 'Once you become an enemy of Uday...
Despite turning the ball over 18 times and earning only two free-position opportunities, Harvard launched 25 shots Calidonia’s way, testing her repeatedly and ensuring that it was only a matter of time before she was beaten...
...hate that a merciless regime left behind? In Najaf a meeting that the U.S. arranged between rival Shi'ite clerics to pave a road to reconciliation ended with both being hacked to death by an angry mob. In Kirkuk a Saddam loyalist who surrendered to Kurdish fighters was beaten unconscious with rifle butts, shot, then soaked in gasoline and set on fire...
...been beaten senseless and memoryless. His name, job, home: gone. When he rents a storage bin to live in, his new landlord warns, "If you don't pay up, I'll send my killer dog to bite your nose off," and adds menacingly, "You won't be able to smoke in the shower...
...literary conventions do constrict the writing on occasion, beginning with the rigid stereotypes of each character. The audience feels somewhat beaten over the head with repetitions of “you’re so dull” and “you’re so crazy” between two opposing characters in a formulaic character foil. The sullen girl’s continuous moping and the irrepressible cheeriness of her friend become overwhelming about ten minutes into the production...