I had heard my share of stories about ruthless brothel madams who recruited snipers for Qaddafi, about routine rapes in government offices and drug-fueled parties at which orphans would be recruited into the Brother Leader's army.
A new report by Freedom from Torture reveals the routine use rape, gang rape and multiple rape to torture politically active women in official state detention centres in the country.
He brings news mainly of men he knew from Omarska, where prisoners would be called each night from their crammed quarters for routine torture, rape, mutilation and death.
Routine testing of rape kits would be a good start.
These days, it is staggeringly routine for a rape, especially if it occurs in a social setting, to be accompanied by some form of digital trophy-taking.
Dean was out proselytizing on campus, taking a break from his usual "you deserve rape" routine to warn the masses of the ways that gay people are "destroying the country".
Truscott's got something major to get off her chest – and I'm not talking about the strip-tease sight gag that punctuates a date-rape routine mid-show.
When you watch Erdoğan's goons marching lifelong democratic journalists to jails where, as Amnesty International reports, beatings, torture and rape are routine, it becomes possible to imagine these things happening in other nominal democracies.
He takes that energy and hurls it right back at us, too, with a scorchingly indelicate opening routine about Bill Cosby and rape, at which point we're set fair for a comic white-knuckle ride.
A comprehensive report by the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights found that Sri Lankan migrant workers were subject to "routine sexual abuse and rape".
