Days in the notorious ‘tiger chair’ causes swollen legs and buttocks. Picture: Russell Christian/Human Rights Watch
SITTING down may not sound like torture, but for prisoners strapped in metal “tiger chairs” for days, it is sheer agony. “I sat until my buttocks bled,” said one inmate who was restrained in the iron contraption, one of China’s many horrifying instruments of punishment ... this an other methods are freely used once a prisoner has been condemned to death.