Definition of "falanga" []

• A form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Case files showed that 25 suspects arrested for alleged theft were assaulted, with 17 being beaten on the soles of their feet, a torture common in Zimbabwe known as falanga, it said."
• "There was no sound — which lent merciful distance to what it showed: the interrogation of some unidentified middle-aged man, undergoing falanga, mostly (beatings to pulp the feet), though the session culminated in anal rape with a stick."
• "The policies of the “falanga” the Spanish fascist party which Franco technically lead failed miserably in the years immediately following the end of the Spanish Civil War."