"Most of the passengers were kept handcuffed, strip searched, and women were subject to discriminative behavior by the male Israeli soldiers," the report said.
"For almost the whole of the period up to Baha Mousa's death … the detainees were kept handcuffed, hooded and in stress positions in extreme heat and conditions of some squalor," the report said.
Mr. Blessing's focus here is on the sufferers: Michael Wells, who over the course of the play's three years is kept handcuffed and blindfolded in a tiny cell; and his wife, Lainie, whose grief is compounded by her frustration with a Washington bureaucracy for whom her husband's plight is a political tool.
Instead she was transferred to the maximum security wing of Yatala Labour, South Australia's main prison for men, where she was kept handcuffed to her bed for 22 hours a day over eight months.
And then he grasped my forearm and whispered, in that low, husky, irresistibly ruthless voice, "Mr. President — you, too?" Then he opened the briefcase he always keeps handcuffed to his wrist and showed me all of his most treasured photos — J.K. in shirtsleeves, his tie loosened; a young J.K., radiant in fatigues; J.K. at the Convention podium, offering that dashing "Reporting for duty" salute.
Yesterday, Mr. McKenzie, known as Deadeye, was kept in handcuffs.
According to each of the exonerees' lawsuits, Valadez fed details about the crime to Fincher, who was kept in handcuffs, threatened with violence and imprisonment, and beaten.
The Dodgers player development folks have kept such handcuffs on Urias during his four years with the organization that he's not physically ready for more than 80-90 pitches.
One defendant, Alexei Polikhovich, shouted on Wednesday that the accusations against him were a "lie" from the courtroom cage where he and other defendants were being kept in handcuffs.
"How can you bring someone medical attention when they're in handcuffs?" Rigg said the decision to keep his handcuffs on behind his back would have restricted his breathing and prevented him from being put in the recovery position.
