Foot whipping, falanga/falaka or bastinado is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet...

A falaka crafted by the Bontoc people of the Philippines....

region and kingdom in ancient India an Arabic word, used in Egypt, for falaka (corporal punishment on the feet) a type of harakat in the Arabic script...

adoptive father, David Fattah, and mother, Falaka Fattah (born Frances Brown, also known as "Queen Mother" Falaka Fattah), are community activists in West...

used during interrogations. Tactics used include the Turkish practice of falaka (beating prisoners on the soles of their feet), though some historians have...

cited various instances of alleged mistreatment of prisoners including falaka, genital torture, electrical shocks, asphyxiation as well as threats of...

Ragusan subjects, having been found guilty of theft, were subjected to the falaka torture, despite the facts that the recent annexation of Ragusa by France...

Street gang, but credits Falaka Fattah and the House of Umoja for his reformation saying, "I can literally say that Sister Falaka and the House of Umoja...

prisoners; sleep, sensory, water and food deprivation for extensive periods; falaka (beating of the soles of feet), "Palestinian hangings" (hanging by the arms);...

(ülkücü) were tortured after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. Besides bastinado (falaka) and rough beatings, prisoners would be held in narrow dark cells often...

observe their commandments. Consequently, Hassan Bey punished him with "falakas" (whipping). This humiliation was one of the factors that led Golomb to...

ISBN 90-04-07026-5. Retrieved 2020-04-09. Daljī (al-), Aḥmad b. ‘Alī (2014). Al-Falāka wa 'l-maflūkūn (in Arabic). Cairo: Sharikat Nawābigh al-Fikr. pp. 122–3...

subsequent punishment of the owner of the flour mill, Eliyahu Golomb, with "falakas" (whipping) is well known as being a catalyst for Golomb’s formation of...

for a least a month sometimes two or three. It list methods used as: a) Falaka (beating of the soles of feet). b) suspension by hands for long periods...

betrayal must be preceded by love. We have never loved the homeland of the 'falaka' (torture) and the 'baksheesh' (bribes)... We hated it with absolute hatred...

raids, and arbitrary arrest. Dener had been tortured with beatings and falaka in a Turkish military prison and fled his home village before it was destroyed...

devices, suspension in painful positions, beating the soles of the feet (falaka), and beatings of the head, torso, and limbs", as well as threats to kill...