A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails....
HT: Free Republic ([link]). Best real-life-imitates-Monty-Python-Sketch moment:
"The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior," the Interior Ministry's statement declared. The Minister of the Interior is also one of Sheikh Issa's brothers.
The government statement said its review found "all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department." |