Two months later, he was dead with a fractured skull, a broken jaw and smashed teeth.
The day will end, broken off, snapped like a shinbone, spat out like smashed teeth".
Broken bones, smashed teeth and irreversible impotence, he said, are among the repercussions of his 12 detentions.
She pointed to her mouth, which was swollen, and said that her jaw had been broken in a car crash last year and she needed to have many of the smashed teeth replaced, but could not afford to do so.
Quick to the scene of Montgomery Clift's near-fatal car crash in 1956, she crawled into the vehicle and, with her fingers, pulled out the smashed teeth lodged deep in his mouth, an intervention that may have saved his life.
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Fortunately, the worst that's happened to me is a bloodied face, smashed teeth and some minor brain and eye damage from beatings by President Mugabe's goons in Brussels in 2001 and far-right nationalists in Moscow in 2007.
Regular beatings smashed his teeth out, leaving him to chew the coarse prison rice with his gums.
"Security officials whipped detainees with heavy cables, pulled out finger and toenails, burned them with acid and cigarettes, and smashed their teeth," Human Rights Watch said.
