"And when I didn't hit hard enough, the policeman beat me."

The policemen beat and questioned them about why they wore beards and observed Islamic norms of hygiene.

"I did not see who started it, but I saw policemen were beating the villagers and the villagers were fighting back with stones and firecrackers."

Worst of all, I'm guilty of intervening when a policeman nearly beats his wife to death!

But he said allegations that a former Iraqi policeman and an Iraqi-born Lebanese interpreter, both working with the Americans, had beaten and kicked them were unsubstantiated.

Sumed and the policemen beat Vijay in the jail because he refuses to accept that he has killed Damania's partners.

When he was detained near Dunnottar, south of Johannesburg, on June 20, 1986, a policeman beat him and kicked him in the face.

The policemen ransacked the house, beat Mr. Kelmendi and took him and his two sons away.

The friend, who was released, said he saw policemen kick and beat Simon Mthimkulu and drop a 'huge rock' on his ribs three times.

At other times a policeman would beat him if he tried to practice his art on the streets used by the gentry.