Philippine police played ‘wheel of torture’ game
Philippine police officers played a “wheel of torture” game to have fun and punish criminal suspects during interrogations, including bouts of punching named after boxing star Manny Pacquiao, human rights activists have revealed.
Amnesty International said that, under the game, detainees – mostly suspected drug traffickers – were punched if the “torture wheel” stopped at “20 seconds Manny Pacman”, Pacquiao’s nickname. They were hung upside down if it stopped at a punishment called “30- second bat”.
A picture of the wheel provided by the Commission on Human Rights yesterday showed several other tortures, including “3 minutes zombies” and “30-second duck walk/Ferris wheel” though it was not clear what those punishments were.
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