Sol Wachtler, Chief Judge of New York State and author of "Grand Juries: Wasteful and Pointless" (Op-Ed, Jan . 6, knows that the state, through its police force and offices of the district attorneys, has replaced the king as the abusive force against which the grand jury must stand as the protector of the rights of a defendant charged with a serious felony.
California prison officials adopted sweeping new policies intended to protect mentally ill prisoners from abusive force and punishment, including use of pepper spray and deep isolation in solitary confinement cells.
Both parties to the conflict should hold abusive forces to account and put an end to these crimes of sexual violence.
And in an ongoing court dispute, the Obama administration is still fighting a federal judge's order to release video tapes showing the abusive force-feedings that Abu Wa'el suffered – over 10 unvarnished hours of his daily reality.
More recently he has launched operations to rescue girls sold into abusive forced marriages and helped turn hundreds of villages into rehabilitation centres to teach trades to abused teenagers.
"Sudan needs to hold abusive forces accountable, and release all illegally held detainees".
Donor countries should ensure that commitments to Afghanistan's security forces include holding accountable Afghan security force personnel implicated in serious human rights violations -- including those with command responsibility over abusive forces.
"What we want Judge Kessler to do is bring the force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay in line with what the law requires, and prohibit gratuitously abusive force-feeding practices and premature force-feeding, and allow [detainees] to use the only means they have for protesting their indefinite detention without trial".
Katz and Wilpon and their lawyers have angrily dismissed the trustee's claims and accusations, calling them an abusive effort to force them to pay hundreds of millions to settle the suit when they did nothing wrong.
As the trial enters its third week, the jury has been presented with two starkly competing narratives: one of a viciously battered wife defending herself against an abusive tormenter who forced her to engage in bizarre sexual rituals and whose own children despised him; the other of a shrewish and vengeful woman who executed her husband simply because she wanted him dead.
