Extensive loss of skeletal muscle tissue results in mutilations and severe loss of function.
Police officials had said that Mr. Sulaiman, the woman's father-in-law, had confessed to taking part in the mutilation in 2009, though Mr. Farouq said he had recently insisted he was innocent.
They were invariably embodied in one wrongdoer whose skills in murder, mutilation and mayhem were chillingly refined.
Ms. Hart's death came a day before the announcement that an elevator repairman was indicted in Brooklyn for an accident that resulted in the mutilation of a woman last December.
What makes Oshima an exceptional figure in modern cinema is not two hours of erotica culminating in genital mutilation; anyone can show that, and lately many have.
The power in the relationship now belongs to her, and in a magnificently chilling scene, she revels in it, opening her robe to reveal her body, even more desirable in its mutilation, to tantalize a mute servant boy.
Mr. Alexander, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the mutilation death of Max B. Kolb, 20.
Mr. Afzal does not mince words when he speaks about the "hundreds of young British girls who have their clitoris cut off in genital mutilation every year".
Sly symbolism — in particular a bizarre sylvan sequence in which Javier, transformed into a feral animal, takes a chunk out of Franco's hand — and baroque humor glaze the mayhem as Javier and Sergio engage in mutual mutilation.
Born into one of the most prominent Athenian families, Andocides was imprisoned on suspicion of having taken part in the mutilation of the sacred busts called herms shortly before the departure of Athens' military expedition to Sicily in 415.
