There was no mention of how, furious at his mistreatment by the police and at the municipality that refused to allow him in to complain, he had doused himself in petrol outside the gates, out in the street where the cars pass by.
But Médicines Sans Frontières (MSF), which quit treating tortured prisoners last month in protest at continuing mistreatment of detainees, said it occurs at several militia bases elsewhere in Misrata, with the victims returned, wounded, to the former school, and in some cases taken out again for fresh torture.
While in jail, Sotoudeh, the mother of two, embarked twice on long hunger strikes in protest at the mistreatment of her 12-year-old daughter and her husband, Reza Khandan, at the hands of the authorities.
"Anyone viewing this footage would be shocked and upset at the mistreatment and we are taking these reports very seriously," he said.
When Moritz fumes at his mistreatment by the ego-stomping adults around him, the blood rises in Mr. Canonico's cheeks, and Moritz turns into a squashed tomato before our eyes.
He does eat normally and the nasal tube should now be seen for what it really is – an empty, meaningless symbol of his supposed protest at his "mistreatment" and also an empty symbol of his act of defiance towards the system.
He would be so full of rage at any mistreatment of a vulnerable woman that he would have to restrain himself physically to keep from killing (and drinking) her assailants.
In published accounts years later, including his OpinionLA post, Rall added allegations that the officer handcuffed and manhandled him, that a crowd of two dozen onlookers shouted in protest at the mistreatment and that a second officer arrived and ordered his colleague to let Rall go.
This past month, the majority of prisoners at Guantánamo began a hunger strike in protest of alleged mistreatment at the hands of guards at the facility.
