falaka

English

Noun

falaka (usually uncountable, plural falakas)

  1. A torture method consisting of whipping a person's bare feet.
    • 1995, Kate Millett, The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment:
      Although technically forbidden, the torture of prisoners through falaka, beating on the soles of the feet or the back of the legs, is very widely practiced in Iran.

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