In 2010, the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, called for closure of compulsory detention of IDU under the guise of treatment and an end to the "repugnant abuses" in drug detention facilities [ 31].
Twice more, British courts ruled in the people's favor, with judges calling the government's behavior "repugnant" and an "abuse of power".
"Tradition" is a good reason for keeping people oppressed, keeping societies in the dark and keeping a country running based on repugnant human rights abuses.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called the use of chemical weapons in Syria "a repugnant crime and a flagrant abuse of international law".
In 1996, in the wake of the murder of a Guatemalan by a CIA informant, officers were told to contact Langley before "establishing a relationship with an individual who has committed serious crimes or human-rights abuses or other repugnant acts".
"The Road to Guantánamo," while far from a great movie, nonetheless effectively dramatizes a position that has been argued, by principled commentators on the left and the right, for several years now: that the abuse of prisoners, innocent or not, is not only repugnant in its own right.
And if he is bitter, it is understandable: He resents the attempts to elevate Manson to a folk-hero — this man who was responsible for killing, whose racist ideas are repugnant (he told his followers: "Hitler had the best answer to everything"), who abused the hippie mystique, who debased those around him.
The same kind of abuse has dogged Michelle Obama throughout two terms as first lady, most recently in a repugnant cartoon comparing her unfavourably to Melania Trump.
The Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has pledged to fully investigate claims that clubs suppressed the reporting of child sexual abuse by buying the silence of victims and described the alleged cover-up as "morally repugnant".
In spring 1997 Antonio de Guzman, psychiatrist at Charter's hospital at Pembroke, Massachusetts, was charged with sexually abusing three young patients, and later convicted for what the judge called 'disgusting and repugnant' crimes.
