“They tighten the cuffs by stamping on them with their feet, until the cuffs bite into the flesh of your wrists and also your buttocks. Sometimes they leave them tightened like this for one or two days until your hands are extremely swollen. Your hands go green, and you can’t feel them at all.”

Ahmed · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-17

Ahmed describes being beaten and tortured with tightened handcuffs during more than a year of detention in Israel.