Arbitrary beatings and rapes were common.
When he was placed under investigation in December, the developers' intimidation campaign abruptly stopped – no more ID checks at the village gates, no more arbitrary beatings.
They are again pulling men from their cars at checkpoints for interrogation because they have beards, or dealing out arbitrary beatings with a sense of impunity — Mubarak-era hallmarks that had receded in recent years.
Human rights groups complain of arbitrary arrests, beatings and killings of government opponents over the past year.
The Franco regime's attempts to crush ETA in the Basque provinces were severe, involving arbitrary arrest, beatings, and torture.
Soldiers and police officers are accused of extortion, arbitrary arrests, beatings, holding people for ransom in "private prisons" and possible torture.
Hazrat Ali, a commander in eastern Afghanistan, for example, was criticized for allowing his commanders, including his own nephew, a police commander named Sami, to be involved in extortion on the roads, arbitrary detentions, beatings and holding people for ransom.
In its first three months in office, the new government of Azerbaijan has conducted a campaign of repression marked by arbitrary arrests, beatings, torture and the dismissal of dissenters from government jobs, according to a report released on Friday by the international rights group Human Rights Watch.
But reports by international rights groups listed serious violations of Kyrgyz and international law during this process including arbitrary arrests, beatings, torture and extortion in exchange for freedom.
Human rights organisations have been denouncing beatings, arbitrary arrests and rapes for years.
Arbitrary arrests, unpunished beatings and impromptu traffic stops, often to extort money, are not uncommon in the city's poorer neighborhoods.
