Elsewhere in The World
Electric shock torture has been, and still is, used in many places in the world, and often the victim is restrained on a frame or table. Only in South America was this type of torture called the parrilla. Although metal bed frames connected to car batteries were used for electrocution in Tuol Sleng during its existence (May 1976 - 7 January 1979).
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