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Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

The coppers came through the door with truncheons swinging, one of them reciting the terms of the warrant through a bullhorn.

Two rallies by an anti-Putin coalition, to protest that the vote would be unfair, were broken up by police with truncheons.

Young men are beaten regularly by police with truncheons known as knobkerries, long synonymous with repression in this part of the world.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police.

Hundreds were beaten with truncheons and arrested after part of the crowd tried to storm the parliament building.

Anyone watching the television could see that as soon as any United fans made a move they were battered and beaten with truncheons .

Last November Mr Saakashvili's well-wishers were horrified when he used tear-gas and truncheons against a long-running street protest.

Violence flared after police on horse-back charged the miners with truncheons drawn and inflicted serious injuries upon several individuals.

Interrogation at the hands of the Gestapo might include beatings with truncheons, electric shock treatment or the dislocation of limbs.

Police and members of the baseej militia, using truncheons and tear-gas, waded into groups of protesters.

In their absence, the thawar patrol the streets with police truncheons.

policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons;