There are no telephones, and water has to be collected from a hosepipe that serves as the irrigation system for the entire village.

This sometimes included explicit torture for the extraction of information, using handcuffs, pieces of hosepipe to beat the child and a whip.

The types of mistreatment include beatings with electric wire, wooden sticks and hosepipes; punching, kicking and whipping with plastic whips; being forced to lift heavy stones; being hung upside down from a metal bar with hands and legs tied while being beaten with electric wire; having sand forced into one's eyes; death threats at gunpoint; being left in the sun for eight hours without water; burning with cigarettes; and being forced to drink large volumes of water.

The medical report states that while in custody the author was handcuffed and assaulted with hosepipes; laid face down on an iron bed, handcuffed and tied by the ankles to the bed, and assaulted with a club and a hose pipe; kept in a dark room for eight days; that during one assault he received an injury to his right eye and bled from his eye; that he was suspended from the roof and beaten, and thereafter fainted; that his head was immersed under water.