Sentences with phrase «told by prisoners»

«On more than one occasion we were told by prisoners that you can get drugs here but not soap,» he said.

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Then he also started receiving regular communications from God telling him to kill pagens, smite unbeilevers, take no prisoners, beat your wife if she steps out of line, be a martyr by fighting for Allah and receive 72 virgins in a beautiful garden, and my favorite... Allah said that Muhammed alone could have access to any woman he desired except wives of other Muslims — slave girls, prisoners, widows, NIECES, daughters, you name it, all fair game for the Prophet of Allah.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Surrounded by cold clinitians in masks, told what to do, held prisoner.

In 2012, a source close to the justice secretary told the Telegraph: «We don't want and we will not accept prisoners replicating cosy, domestic relationships by being able to share cells in our prisons.»

Half of the inmates told investigators they'd been victimised by other prisoners.

Schoolboy is «beaten by Pakistani men for dating a girl from their family who told him Don't mess with our blood» The Bengali student was taken prisoner Start online dating with Match.

Directed by Angelina Jolie and co-written by the Coen brothers, this films tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Angelina Jolie's second film as director tells the extraordinary story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic long - distance runner who fought as a bombardier in the second world war and survived 47 days adrift after being shot down over the Pacific before being taken prisoner by the Japanese.

There he meet's Rami's character Louis Dega, who he is told is a «millionaire» by other prisoners, making him an easy target to the criminals.

These are the fundamental questions asked in the newest film directed by Denis Villeneuve («Incendies «-RRB-, Prisoners, which tells the tale of a couple who have to deal with the sudden disappearance of their daughter.

Angelina Jolie's Unbroken tells the story of Olympic long - distance runner and Air Force bombardier Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell), and his struggles to survive as a prisoner of war of the Japanese before the end of the war.

Produced by Jordan Peele and the team behind the Academy - Award ® winning Get Out, Spike Lee uses his trademark take - no - prisoner style and humor to tell this story often missing from the history books.

The final part of the story tells of his eventual capture and subsequent days of hard physical labor and abuse in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp run by the sadistic Mutsuhiro Watanabe (a solid debut by Japanese pop star Miyavi), aka «the Bird» (because he can see and hear everything), who makes it his mission to break the spirited Olympic champ down.

The film is based on screenplay by the Coen Brothers and tells the story of American Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

The film, which has been directed by Jolie with a screenplay from the Coen Brothers, tells the story of American Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Under director Bill Condon, with a script by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, Belle's bookishness is underlined (she's the only girl in the village who can read) and it's books that Beauty and the Beast bond over.Watson gives Belle a nicely determined air, and she's not simperingly silly in this version — «I'm not afraid,» she tells her father after she tricks him into taking his place as prisoner in the Beast's castle — while Stevens, under all the make - up and prosthetics, is a memorably haunted and melancholic figure.

The Railway Man tells the true story of another prisoner of war held by the Japanese in WWII.

My deepest story must be told by a blind man, a prisoner of sound.

Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her because that is what he was told would make the winds blow in his favor and take him to Troy; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus, who shared her bed in the dark and could kill; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal - his quest for victory, greater than his love for his child.

Accompanied by drawings created by real - life prisoners of the Terezín concentration camp, these gripping poems tell the heartbreaking stories of multiple fictional characters.

Concurrently, Aurélie du Bessancourt, the aristocrat's eldest daughter, tells her own story from 1789 — one of her family scrambling to enter the Palais, being held prisoner by her father and uncle, and her own attempt to escape.

Thanks to a documentary underwritten by the Kirkpatrick Foundation, The Dogs of Lexington, tells the redemptive story of shelter dogs, prisoners, and people.

Link is awoken by a voice claiming to be the princess Zelda, who telepathically tells him that she is being held prisoner in her own dungeons.

Senior staff at the prison might need to take immediate action to impound fi les and records, and make written records (however brief) of what they were told by offi cers or prisoners on the spot at the time.

I was told by police officers that there were not enough guards to quell the violence or to give prisoners their half - hour out in the Don Jail's quadrangle for some fresh air.