Pau de arara [ˈpaw dʒi aˈɾaɾɐ] is a torture method in which the victim is bound by the ankles and wrists, with the biceps under a pole and knees over...

The Monument Tortura Nunca Mais is a monument located in Padre Henrique plaza in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It was conceived by the architect Demétrio...

interrogators used while torturing the defendants: The parrot's perch (pau de arara) Electric shocks Drowning The dragon's chair The ice box Insects and...

prisoners were subjected to beatings, sometimes resulting in fractures, the pau de arara technique (which involves contorted positions on a bar), both dry and...

prisoners which demonstrate the cruelty suffered—including the use of the pau de arara method. The film premiered at the Whitney Museum in New York City on...

suffered with extreme temperature fluctuations and disturbing noises) and pau de arara. The torture techniques used in Brazil, contrary to the idea that they...

and corrupt; and habitual serial violence is routine". From Middle Latin tortura: 'pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of...

the center-south of Brazil, most of them coming in trucks nicknamed "paus-de-arara"; before their existence, journeys to the north were mainly made on...