Prosecutors said the rabbi's team used brutal methods and tools, including handcuffs and electric cattle prods, to torture the men into granting divorces, known as gets.
The Iranian regime has delegitimized itself, first by conducting a patently dishonest election, then by using brutal methods to stop the protests, and now again in their most recent hypocrisy.
Leaders of her organization, Memorial, laid blame at the feet of the Chechen president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, who, with unwavering public support from the Kremlin, has brought the region under control using brutal methods.
Mickum told me that he has met several times with Durham, and believes that the scope of his inquiry may have expanded to include a review of whether the C.I.A. began using brutal methods on Zubaydah before it received written authorization from the Justice Department.
Coming on the heels of a suicide bombing in Grozny that fall, the attack raised concerns that the Islamic insurgency in Chechnya was again growing after a crackdown over the past decade by Kadyrov, who has been accused of using brutal methods in his effort to stamp out Islamic violence.
A third and crucial consideration, in sharp contrast to the problems faced by the liberal democracies of the West, is that Kadyrov, with Moscow's blessing, has used and will continue to use brutal methods of control and repression to eliminate the jihadist threat within his republic.
Ms. Estemirova had spent decades documenting kidnappings and killings that she linked to the Chechen president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, who was appointed by the Kremlin and has used brutal methods to bring separatists under control.
The decision to remain had been made in the mid-1830s; during the Guizot era, General Thomas-Robert Bugeaud used brutal methods to break Algerian resistance, pushed the native population back into the mountains, and began the process of colonizing the rich coastal plain.
The police use brutal methods mostly against common criminals to extract confessions, but also against demonstrators, certain political prisoners and unfortunate bystanders".
