Even common law detainees are beaten with hoses, cables, sticks and suspended. Some suspensions are called the farruj, or chicken because the prisoner is tied on a pole like a chicken on a spit. Some detainees have died following beatings by police. Also electric shock is often used as a form of torture. Some detainees have literally gone crazy and are no longer able to function as normal rational human beings.
Torture is an inhuman form of gaining a confession.
Quite often, suspects to crimes confess to things they have not even done just to end the torture. Recently, a young man who works for a money exchanger was robed of the money he was taking to a local bank. He went back to the exchanger and explained what happened. The police arrested him and beat him severely. Naturally, because of the different forms of torture he was subjected to, the young man confessed to a crime he did not commit.