1.   Others show people whose foreheads had been branded with an X to indicate guilt, most often in cases where other mutilation had been done.

2.   The department said Iraq had amputated ears and branded foreheads of criminals, and had tortured people to death.

3.   Torture and abuse of dissidents are systematic and as of early summer Iraq was still cutting off the ears of deserters and branding their foreheads, he said.

4.   Amputations continue to be practiced on hundreds of army deserters who have one or two ears cut off, with some also having their forehead branded.

5.   To distinguish criminals from veterans maimed in war, the regime has decided to brand the foreheads of criminals with the figure of a cross.