helicopter torture

Louis Le Grange Square to Warrant-Officer Coetzee's office, who was alone at the time. There you and Warrant-Officer Coetzee prepared the so-called helicopter torture treatment and administered it to ...

... was forced to perform rigorous physical exercises, push-ups, the so-called 'scooter' which implies half a squat. I also experienced the so-called 'helicopter' which meant getting your hands tied together with your feet and being hung on whatever object there is they could hang you ...

... another man arrived. This man helped Coetzee. I was put on two tables and I was hung there. I was then told that this type of torture is called "helicopter" and Comrades enjoyed it. I was told that people like Snqokwana, Ngoyi, Dennis Neer, have been through this. I was told that this kind ...

... have been working underground for the ANC". In the evening we would relate the stories of this torture. I think some members did indicate what "helicopter" meant, I am not going into detail. Most of the members went through that "helicopter" treatment. ...

After 45 minutes you arrived at that decision, why did you not think about using other forms of torture, like the electric shock device, the wet bag treatment, the helicopter treatment, all these other forms of torture, other than just physical assault with hands and feet?

that what happened to me I would actually sign an affidavit saying that I will not reveal the torture that they had actually inflicted upon me. The helicopter treatment I should not even tell my wife and so ...

... freely admitted to participating in such tortures and described a number of methods of torture that were resorted to. These included the so-called helicopter method (whereby the victim was cuffed by ankles and wrists to a pole and made to suspend upside down between two tables), the canvas bag ...

... methods used were already, to put it mildly, unconventional. Just about everything that became formalised and generalised, electric torture, the helicopter, sleep deprivation, standing on a brick, beatings, they were all there. Their refinement was such that the participation of the district ...

... to him I was not responding the way he liked. He tied my two hands between my legs. He put two chains(?), then put a stick and performed a helicopter method so that I should linger around, and that made me hurt on my shoulders and on my lower limbs. Maybe he felt that I am not feeling ...

What I didn’t like was the torture that we were experiencing. The helicopter was making noise - was - the police were all over the place. My friends who were suppose to attend the funeral and the other doctors were not allowed.