Almost two-thirds of both male and female service members who reported assault said they experienced reprisal or mistreatment after reporting their assault, the report found.
They had experienced Gaddafi's reprisals following previous uprisings, and those reprisals were stone-cold brutal.
It's not something they are inclined to talk about, because those who did talk about it, who came forward and reported it, many of them experienced very severe reprisals.
Or consider the reprisals experienced by prisoners in facilities such as Michigan's Kinross prison in 2016.
In early July 1944, even as the AK resistance continued its struggle against the Germans, the Underground State was forced to order the AK and its administrative structure to remain in hiding from the Soviets, due to continued arrests and reprisals experienced by those who revealed themselves.
More than one in five employees interviewed said they experienced some sort of reprisal when they reported misconduct, ranging from being excluded from decision-making activities and getting the cold shoulder from other employees to being passed over for promotion.
Specifically, women who have experienced domestic abuse are concerned about fear of reprisal and stigma, which may hamper their willingness to participate.
Both are far too young to have experienced the Chinese invasion of 1950; they tell of how they became aware of Tibet's modern history only gradually because the older generation was too afraid of reprisal to talk about it.
It will enable victims to escape their traffickers, cooperate with prosecutors without fear of reprisal, and obtain the safe housing and legal and social services they need to overcome the trauma caused by the deceit and abuse they experienced.
What the conference did seem to do, though, was give Ms. Sharaf a chance to experience the free and open exchange of ideas without fear of reprisal from her teachers, parents or neighbors.
