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period, in a 1967 survey 83% of the inmates in Greek prisons reported about frequent infliction of bastinado. It was also used against rioting students. In Spanish prisons 39% of the inmates reported about this kind of treatment. The French
829:, Sarastro orders Monostatos to be punished with 77 blows on the soles of his feet: "He! gebt dem Ehrenmann sogleich/nur sieben und siebenzig Sohlenstreich'." (lit. "Give the gentleman immediately just seventy-seven strokes on the soles.") 1155:"Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung": Helga Schwarz u. Gerda Szepansky: ... und dennoch blühten Blumen (S. 26) ("Brandenburg Central for political education": ... and yet the flowers bloomed p. 26) 1143:"Weibliche Angelegenheiten": Handlungsräume von KZ-Aufseherinnen in Ravensbrück und Neubrandenburg ("Female Matters": Responsibilities of overseers in the concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Neubrandenburg): 1078:
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Foot whipping was common practice as means of disciplinary punishment in different kinds of institutions throughout Central Europe until the 1950s, especially in German territories.
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The first clearly identified written documentation of bastinado in Europe dates to 1537, and in China to 960. References to bastinado have been hypothesised to also be found in the
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It was reported that Russian prisoners of war were "bastinadoed' at Afion camp by their Ottoman captors during World War I. However, British prisoners escaped this treatment.
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is discovered and is questioned. "He was bastinadoed lightly to make him talk (for a heavy bastinado killed), but the man sobered up quickly and said nothing."
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is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet. Unlike most types of
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Foot whipping was, among other methods, used as a method of obtaining confession from alleged political criminals during the
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reportedly used it to extract confessions. The British used it in Palestine, and the French in Algeria. Within
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In German prisons this method consistently served as the principal disciplinary punishment. Throughout the
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Foot whipping amongst other methods is still practised today in the torture of prisoners in Russia.
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Recent research in imaging of torture victims confirms it is still used in several other countries.
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It was also inflicted on the population in occupied territories, notably Denmark and Norway.
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era. In several German and Austrian institutions it was still practised during the 1950s.
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Bastinado is still practised in penal institutions of several countries around the world.
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Foot whipping was a commonly reported torture method used by the security officers of
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caning the soles of a prisoner's bare feet was employed as a form of chastisement in
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and is mentioned in the ten regulations to prisoners now on display in the
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Foot whipping was practised in juvenile institutions and protectories in
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era it was frequently used in German penal institutions and labour camps.
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Miller, Christine; Popelka, Jessica; Griffin, Nicole (8 June 2014).
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is said to have instituted foot whipping, a practice derived from
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secret police would commonly use bull penises for the task.
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This punishment has, at various times, been used in
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Index

Bastinado
Fustuarium
a series
Corporal punishment

Domestic
Judicial
School
Amputation
Belting
Birching
Branding
Caning
Cat o' nine tails
Flagellation
Foot whipping
Knout
Paddle
Scourge
Sjambok
Slippering
Spanking
Strapping
Switch
Tawse
Riding crop
Whip
Afghanistan
Brunei
Iran

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