The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is hoping to profit from selling its expertise to the prison service in Saudi Arabia, a country notorious for public beheadings, floggings, amputations and courts that regularly violate human rights.
His fish-paintings defy the classifying, Linnaean purposes of his patron, Mr Lempriere, the prison surgeon who, when not supervising floggings, aspires to membership of the Royal Society.
In 1978, buffetted by calls from the floor for a return to the birch and "Saturday night floggings" for football hooligans, it notes, the future home secretary William Whitelaw pledged a new regime of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres modelled on army discipline.And in 1958?
They are already making life a misery complete with floggings and hand-choppings for Malians under thand-choppings forplaces as TiMalians once a bastion of tolerance fabled for its munder marvellous shrines and ancientheiruswaypts.
The group has copied some of the Taliban's more puritanical features, such as insisting on beards, meting out floggings, stoning adulterers and banning music.
According to the constitution every Maldivian must be Muslim, but the leaflet accused Mr Nasheed of seeking to build temples, elevate Christians and Jews in public diplomacy, abolish punitive amputations and public floggings (there are dozens each year, mainly of women) and promote the consumption of drugs and alcohol.On social media the comments are even more extreme.
But it's not quite on a par with the lynchings, floggings and threatened executions of Pakistan.
In this climate of fear, the Examiner often sounds modern in its defence of civil rights and liberties (habeas corpus and parliamentary reform), its campaign for religious toleration (Catholic emancipation) and its exposure of inhumanity (the slave trade, military floggings).
Popular pastimes included public floggings, dog-fighting and hunting bullocks to death through east London streets.
In the mid-1990s, unmarried couples, and women who broke the Islamic dress code, were terrorised by vigilante patrols and floggings at the hands of the judiciary.
Public floggings and executions strike fear.
