Household exposure to violence and human rights violations in western Bangladesh (II): history of torture and other traumatic experience of violence and functional assessment of victims

Table 3 Torture methods reported by the study participants

Rank	Torture method	No. of victims (%)
1	Being kicked	171 (23.8)
2	Other psychological torture	143 (19.9)
3	Being beaten or hit with a blunt object	94 (13.1)
4	Falanga (beating on the soles of the feet)	65 (9.0)
5	Threats to family, mock execution	46 (6.4)
6	Strangulation	43 (6.0)
7	Immersion in water or suffocation	34 (4.7)
8	Being blindfolded	30 (4.2)
9	Forced position	24 (3.3)
10	Needle pricking	23 (3.2)
11	Electric shock	16 (2.2)
12	Sexual harassment, molestation, rape or inserting blunt object into a genital organ and/or rectum	16 (2.2)
13	Other	13 (1.8)
14	Burn	6 (0.8)
	Total	724

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