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...their tortures are simply transferred to a detention camp, like Tres Alamos in Santiago. According to one report by reliable groups within the country, there were 85 female prisoners at Tres Alamos as of May; 72 of them insisted that they had been tortured. The most common methods: beating, rape (sometimes by trained dogs), electric shock and burnings with lighted cigarettes...
...Braunschweig, who investigated conditions in Iran last January, claims has 20,000 members and a network of some 180,000 paid informers. The country's repertory of tortures includes not only electric shock and beatings, but also the insertion of bottles in the rectum, hanging weights from testicles, rape, and such apparatus as a heK met that, worn over the head of the victim, magnifies his own screams...
...prevalence of rape (of both men and women) as a torture technique indicates that the ranks of torturers contain many sexual psychotics as well as sadists. At the same time, some victims testify that their torturers were visibly strained by the routine and took pills to soothe their nerves; Fred Morris says that one of his torturers, a certain Major Maia, used to explain that he was a fellow Christian who went to Mass every day on his way to work...
Shange's choreopoem presents seven brightly dressed black women, including the author herself, on a barren stage. Barefoot, they weave and bob around like sisters at a revival meeting. Each one has a tale to tell-about rape or abortion, about being duped by a scheming man, about being poor and miserable in the streets of Harlem. "There are certain kinds of emotional pain that make me feel horrible," Shange told TIME's Jean Vallely. "I ache. I feel like I have these terrible hot rods in my arm. When I'm in that particular pain...
...Bartley-Fox law is unique in that most mandatory sentencing laws are addressed to serious crimes, like rape, murder and armed robbery...