Dissidents were beaten, hung upside down and starved to make them confess or implicate others.
They were, variously, beaten, starved, suspended upside down from the ceiling, waterboarded.
He shows scars on his legs, saying he was severely beaten and hung upside down by park officials, who accused him of poaching.Reports of such brutality are rife.
Even the party's 76-year-old secretary general, Bashir Azeem, was detained for two months in 2009 and tortured — including being beaten and hung upside down, in a case documented by Human Rights Watch.
He told the Observer: "We don't know who the individuals [British intelligence officers] were, but when you have different personnel coming in and behaving in a similar fashion it implies some level of systemic approach to the situation, rather than one eager beaver deciding it is absolutely fine for someone to be beaten or hung upside down".
If the victims are ever seen again, they invariably say that they have been tortured with electric shocks, beaten, given injections, hung upside down by their ankles".
In a deposition released by his lawyers, Mr. Wu says he was beaten while being hung upside down, deprived of food and water for several days and then given stimulants so he could not sleep.
She said she had been held for more than seven months, hung upside down, beaten and given electric shocks before $25,000 had been paid by relatives to various traffickers to win her release.
One prison camp survivor, a doctor who had been caught trying to escape to China, said he was stripped and hung upside down, beaten, tortured with fire or water, and had water mixed with spicy pepper poured into his nose and mouth.
Some of the shots show the dictator's face grotesquely swollen, unrecognizable after being hung upside down, beaten and stoned.
