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falanga

fo long guh

  • n  a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels

  • In Greece, a favorite technique is the falanga, in which the soles of the feet are beaten to a pulp with sticks.
  • Mallios an interrogator ordered Spanos a security agent to give me 15 falanga whacks on the feet.

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