CAT: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance Torturing Methods in the Police Custody: • Beating indiscriminately with a baton is known as General Therapy (sa-re-ga-ma). • In another method of torture, both the hands and legs of arrested persons remain handcuffed, while they are placed like a bat on a piece of rod, put between two tables. In such inhuman condition, victims are then beaten under their feet. This method of torture is known as Bat Therapy (Badur Dholai). • In the Snake Therapy, the prisoners are mercilessly beaten while they are kept hanging with a hook from the ceiling and their wrists are tied up with a rope. • In the torture methods such as Water Therapy or Water Polish, the prisoner is kept lying on the floor, and then, water is poured into his/her mouth and nostrils, stuffed with a piece of cloth, so that s/he feels suffocated. This process continues for a considerably long period of time with little pauses. In some incidences, the victim falls severely ill, as water enters the lungs during this torturing process. • In another method of torture, generally known as the Penis Therapy, a piece of brick is hung from the penis of the victim with a string, and then the victim of torture is asked to walk. • In another commonly used method of torture in the custody, wired metal rings are put into the fingers of the prisoners to execute electric shocks. This method – known as ‘Dancing Torture Method’ – is named after the reaction of the victim, receiving such electric shocks. Source: Information gathered in an interview with a police constable in a police station in Sylhet District. 43