A stun gun was allegedly used to wake him up.

Allegedly, the stun belt could only be removed when Bruce Sons testified.

Allegations had also been received concerning the abusive use of electro shock stun belts and stun guns. According to the information received, stun devices, which incapacitate an inmate by transmitting electric shocks, can reportedly cause high levels of pain and may result in serious injuries, possibly even death in certain circumstances.

Prolonged or repeated application of stun devices is allegedly not sufficiently prevented by their technological design.

The judge reportedly agreed that Bruce Sons had not misbehaved, but ordered him to continue wearing the stun belt.

Reportedly, the judge made him wear shackles and a stun belt as he was not convinced of his disabilities.

He was further alleged to have been hit with a stun gun after being strapped into a restraint chair.

The Special Rapporteur is concerned at the use of practices such as chain gangs, of instruments of restraint in court and of stun belts and stun guns, some of which can only be intended to be afflictive and degrading, others of which have the same effect.

And they clearly learned a lot from it because in the same district, Police review policy after children shocked 2nd child shocked by Taser stun gun within weeks.

77. On 22 January, IDF troops used smoke bombs and stun grenades to disperse dozens of Palestinian rioters who threw stones at an IDF tractor near Khan Younis.

Although the exact medical effects of the stun belt were reportedly still unknown, its use was said to have been promoted as an alternative to shackles or leg irons.

James Oswald, a Wisconsin murder trial defendant, was allegedly forced to wear a stun belt even though he was sitting in a wheelchair during the whole trial, in April 1995.

Bruce Sons was said to have been accidentally incapacitated by a stun belt while talking to his defence attorney during a break in a pretrial court hearing in California, on 16 December 1994.

Remote controlled electro shock stun belts had reportedly been introduced by a decision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1994 to prevent high risk inmates from escaping during transportation and court appearances.

239. On 8 March, an IDF spokesman denied reports that soldiers seeking stone throwers at a school outside Hebron threw stun grenades and tear gas canisters into the schoolyard after being barred from entering it.

The Dutch parliament has given the leaders a year to prove that their religions prescribed methods of slaughter cause no more pain than slaughter with prior stunning. If they cannot do so, the requirement to stun before slaughtering will be implemented.

The autopsy report was said to indicate that he had numerous contusions and lacerations to his head, face, neck and limbs as well as burn marks resulting from the use of a stun gun on various parts of his body.

Although some States, including New York, Illinois and New Jersey, as well as Washington D.C., had reportedly banned the use of stun weapons for law enforcement and correctional purposes, they were still said to be used in several other States.

Stun belts had allegedly already been used as instruments of restraint during judicial hearings in violation of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners which prohibit the use of restraints on prisoners when appearing before a judicial authority.

When the Chinese government formally announces Zhou s arrest probably after the conclusion of the annual session of the National People s Congress in mid March the revelations of the rot within the Chinese party state will stun even the most jaded observers. What Zhou, his family, and their cronies have done can be described only as insatiable looting and blatant gangsterism.