Two of the plaintiffs in the case, Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ben Soud, were held and brutalized in 2003 in a secret CIA facility in Afghanistan that prisoners called "The Darkness".
"You could go and if you were in the club, arrange a time and a place when online you could view a child being raped and brutalized in real time," he said.
I'd seen young Iranians shot, beaten, tear-gassed and brutalized in the streets in the name of their beliefs.
Helpless Latino immigrants have been harassed and brutalized in states from Arizona to Iowa and sent to languish in federal custody.
In 2002, Ms. Haspel headed a C.I.A. detention facility in Thailand where a suspect linked to Al Qaeda, accused of orchestrating the attack on the American destroyer Cole off the coast of Yemen, was waterboarded and brutalized in other ways.
Since its founding, 13 years ago, he's treated more than 15,000 women who've been brutalized in a conflict where rape is a common weapon and women's vaginas are part of the field of battle.
President Abdullah Gul has said that Article 301 has been as damaging to Turkey's reputation as "Midnight Express," a 1978 film about an American drug smuggler brutalized in a Turkish prison.
If at one end of the police abuse spectrum is Abner Louima, brutalized in a precinct house bathroom, the nasty ordeal of this young white man, the son of two Upper West Side college professors, is at the other.
The passive title character, played here by Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, is brutalized in a series of encounters with the people he depends on to subsist, primarily a doctor who pays him to participate in experiments, and the sneering captain of his regiment.
