Between 30,000 and 50,000 died from cold, starvation, shooting, beatings, lethal injections, disease and medical experimentation; tens of thousands were sent east to be murdered.
It wasn't all cold showers and perpetual beatings.
"[Plaintiffs] were subjected to solitary confinement; extreme darkness, cold, and noise; repeated beatings; starvation; excruciatingly painful stress positions; prolonged sleep deprivation; confinement in coffin-like boxes; and water torture," according to the ACLU lawsuit.
But instead he was moved to a CIA "black site" at Bagram Airfield, where he described humiliation, sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, food and water deprivation and beatings.
He suffered shackling, hooding, beatings, sexual harassment, extreme cold, relentless loud music, death threats, and threats to kidnap and rape his mother.
Padnos talked about beatings, solitary confinement, exposure to cold; his captors even buried him alive for half an hour.
He says his limp comes from almost a year of beatings and sleeping on a cold tile floor.
I developed short-hand notations for the executioners' repertoire: electrocution, solitary-confinement cells, beatings, dunking in a vat of cold water, starvation.
When it lifted, Liang was dead, his health wrecked by the scores of lengthy "struggle sessions" publicly to humiliate him; by beatings from Red Guards; and by the cold, damp conditions of the building to which the family had been moved.
Mr. Iqbal pleaded guilty after several months of confinement in the special unit, where he was subjected to daily body-cavity searches, sometimes several times a day, as well as to beatings and to extremes of hot and cold.
