... a glass wall in court. 72 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL BOLSHOI Filin returns to the Bolshoi and is mobbed by reporters. Putin’s designated general director, Vladimir Urin, watches the audience assemble...

... to drink from a bottle containing what appears to be urine, before being ordered to empty its contents onto his own head. Restruct carried out a similar campaign against alleged drug dealers. Zheleznov emerged from his first prison term after two years, a rising star of the far right. He was recruited...

... with blood. Suharto banned the PKI and imprisoned 35,000 people without trial—many of whom were tortured. Some political prisoners were forced to drink soldiers’ urine; others had to eat their own severed ears. The elimination of the Communist Party and the rise of student demonstrations forced Sukarno...

..., then step into a room where the air is pungent with the smell of urine and feces. In the darkness, one misstep and a visitor stumbles upon an infant, who seems unshaken by the accidental nudge. A few steps further lie two dozen more infants, none older than 18 months—some sitting on a broken couch, many...

.... Later I thought maybe it was just piss,” Misha continued. There were no toilets. “We were just made to hop into the corner of a room nearby” to urinate. Guards would cut their prisoners hands free of tape, then re-tape them as they hopped back into the main room. The guards taunted them, saying...