THE four men pushed their way into the house as soon as Lasiani opened the front door. They quickly made for the room where her husband, Zainal Abidin Nasution, was resting, and dragged the 44-year-old out of the house. Confident they had their man, they then took Zainal to Medan Central Police HQ.

Regularly beaten along the way on that Wednesday night of 28 May 2009, Zainal was only told why he had been arrested when he got to the police statio