Word: treatments
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Meanwhile, the larger historical framework surrounding the controversy, such as the United States' very recent imperialist past (and some might argue present) in Puerto Rico and the treatment of Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens in the United States has been shunted aside in favor of blanket accusations about the tolerance of violence and the cat-and-mouse game of political point-scoring. What was an opportunity for Americans, particularly politicians, to educate themselves about Puerto Rico's history and its complicated relationship with the United States, as well as about the status and treatment of Puerto Ricans...
...granting the prisoners clemency, President Clinton has acknowledged that the justice system can make mistakes and affirmed that in a true democracy, an individual cannot be sentenced for political viewpoints or unproven assumptions about his or her intentions. It remains to be seen if the treatment of the released prisoners in upcoming years will reflect this affirmation, but for now I consider it a step forward to have the lives and rights of Puerto Ricans, United States citizens for the past 80 years, considered on the same level as those of other Americans, even as the controversy that has exploded...
...journalists were tortured by beatings with fists and rubber batons to the head, body and feet and by application of electric shocks all over the body, said Sherman Carroll, director of public affairs with the Medical Foundation for the Care and Treatment of Victims of Torture in London. They were also submitted to the "submarine," meaning their heads were "wrapped in plastic bags and then submerged in water until they started suffocating," he said...
After their release six days later, Choto and Chavunduka traveled to London for physical and psychological treatment at the Medical Foundation...
...Part of what [the fellows] want to do is to make this treatment of journalists in Zimbabwe known to organizations around the world," Kovach said...