Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Strappado" in English language version.
Mysteriously, this method is commonly called 'Palestinian hanging' today, although torture monitors say it is used by neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority.
In the case of Klimov and Slyvotskyy v. Ukraine, ECHR considered two applications involving allegations of ill-treatment by the police in order to extract false self-incriminating statements, and of ineffective investigation into their complaints. It found that Ukraine had violated Article 3 of the European Convention, namely the prohibition of torture, in both cases. The judgement explains that, according to Slyvotskyy, he was taken on 3 November 2003 to a forest, where several officers from the Voznesensk police 'subjected him to "Palestinian hanging", threatened to torture his relatives, punched and kicked him, and pressed pistols against his forehead in order to force him to confess to a murder.'
The prisoner died in a position known as 'Palestinian hanging,' documents reviewed by The AP showed.