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...short in 1985, when she broke a hip in a traffic accident. Back in Baghdad, she began to take on criminal cases, mostly pro bono. That's how she came upon Naadi, a young Egyptian bellhop who had crossed Uday Hussein. Naadi was being held at a police station and being tortured even as Nouman waited to see him. "They were touching his fingers with a live wire, and I could hear his screams in the waiting area," she recalls. "When they finally let me see him, his first words were, 'Please help me to kill myself...
...wrong she was. Barely a 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 naivete. "They said, 'Once you become...
...short in 1985, when she broke a hip in a traffic accident. Back in Baghdad, she began to take on criminal cases, mostly pro bono. That's how she came upon Naadi, a young Egyptian bellhop who had crossed Uday Hussein. Naadi was being held at a police station and being tortured even as Nouman waited to see him. "They were touching his fingers with a live wire, and I could hear his screams in the waiting area," she recalls. "When they finally let me see him, his first words were, 'Please help me to kill myself.'" Naadi's trouble...
...Crab, located on the waterfront near the Financial District, does the East Coast justice. After summers of soggy fries and rubbery fried clams, it was refreshing to eat at a place where the food was as pleasant as the atmosphere. The restaurant is a minor trek from the South Station T-stop, located directly on the water. During the warmer months, limited boat docking is available for customers...
...saluting the Iraqi people. Now the use of funds he raised to help an Iraqi girl suffering from leukemia is also being looked into. - By Helen Gibson Back Into Space russia A Soyuz rocket blasted off into orbit in the first manned flight to the International Space Station since the Columbia shuttle disaster in February. A Russian and an American make up the reduced crew that will maintain the space station and study the effects of weightlessness on bone density. The Russian space program is currently the only means of sending humans into space since NASA's shuttles have been...