Sentence examples for random beatings from inspiring English sources

Once they were moved to the prison where Etwiy remains, Wadi Natrun, they faced new challenges, like insect-infested cells, the denial of medical treatment and random beatings.

The random beatings soon ceased.

Can looting, drive-by-shootings, random beatings, prostitution and drug dealing compensate for accounting irregularities?

Instead, there were several days of random beatings and arrests of young men across the capital before a mass retreat indoors began.

Since the crackdown in March, there have been raids on Harare districts such as Highfield and Glenview, known opposition strongholds, where random beatings and arrests have become common.

It is a highly immersive game in which a player takes on the role of an ex-convict who advances through an array of violent tasks, including looting cars, drive-by shootings, random beatings, and even having sex with, and killing, prostitutes.

"Punishments" – for they seem to have been dished out almost at random – included beatings with electrical cables, being forced to kick a concrete ball, and having their feet scalded and toenails pulled out.

While all the migrants I spoke to here said they'd suffered violence by the police in the past, they reported that the near-daily raids on the forest encampments, the random arrests, and the beatings came to a sudden halt in the final weeks of 2013.

He had witnessed beatings, hangings, shootings, random cruelty.

He told me that beatings were common — random, routine kicks and cuffings that he saw G.I.s administer to the Vietnamese.

He came and went at random, apparently joining in the beatings for the sheer pleasure of it.