List of Methods of Torture - Physical Torture Methods

Physical Torture Methods

  • Abacination
  • Beatings and physical violence
  • Blinding with light
  • Boiling
  • Bone breaking
  • Branding
  • Castration
  • Chelsea grin
  • Chinese water torture
  • Choking/Strangling
  • Crushing
  • Cutting
  • Denailing
  • Disfigurement
  • Drowning
  • Dunking
  • Flagellation
  • Flaying
  • Foot roasting
  • Foot whipping
  • Force-feeding
  • Garrotting
  • Genital mutilation/forced circumcision
  • Hamstringing
  • Kneecapping
  • Keelhauling
  • Mutilation
  • Oxygen deprivation
  • Picquet
  • Pitchcapping
  • Pressure points
  • Rat torture
  • Riding the Rail
  • Sexual assault
  • Sawing
  • Scalping
  • Scaphism
  • Sleep deprivation
  • Sound (extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low frequency, high pitched noise, intended to interfere with rest, cognition and concentration).
  • Starvation
  • Strappado/squassation (also known as "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging")
  • Stress positions
  • Ta'liq hanging from a metal bar.
  • Tarring and feathering
  • Thumbscrew (torture)
  • Tickle torture
  • Tooth extraction
  • Water cure
  • Waterboarding

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