Only a small percentage of mentally ill people are violent, and many advocates bristle at any link between mental illness and violence out of concern that it will further stigmatize an already mistreated population.
Through this lens, we see how women experience interpersonal violence not only in direct, physical harm, but also though the injuries that come from the bureaucracies within institutions that do not respond to their needs and instead disrespect and mistreat them and further exacerbate their marginalization.
Miner further alleges that Ikram had mistreated Ashra, and says the woman named in the lawsuit is not Ashra's birth mother.
As the New York Times further revealed, the agency also mistreated and mishandled mentally ill immigrant detainees and violated their legal rights. .
These regiments were composed of troops from out of state, who sometimes mistreated local residents—further motivating the guerrillas and their supporters.
Chang Myeong-Su, a former Chosen Soren official who worked on the repatriation campaign but later became a harsh critic of it after hearing that numerous returnees had been arrested and mistreated, went a step further in his own 2003 book on the topic, Morris-Suzuki said.
There is already a "memorandum of understanding" between the UK and Jordan guaranteeing Abu Qatada himself would not be mistreated, but the UK is seeking further assurances.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been widespread reports of airport security officials mistreating travelers and quickly escalating minor incidents further than they needed to go.
Further, 97% of trans people indicated that they had been mistreated, harassed or discriminated against at work, and 26% had been fired due to their gender identity or expression.
Ben Griffin could be jailed if he makes further disclosures about how people seized by special forces were allegedly mistreated and ended up in secret prisons in breach of the Geneva conventions and international law.
