The jiagun ( 夾棍) ankle crusher was a Chinese instrument of torture consisting of three wooden boards approximately a yard in length that were connected...

forcing women to confess, and for men there was the similar and more painful jiagun (夾棍) ankle crusher with three wooden planks that slowly compressed the feet...

the feet, fundamentally identical to the Chinese foot torture known as Jiagun, and were tied in place by cords. Wedges were hammered between the boards...

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the magistrate subjected him to courtroom torture through the use of the jiagun. In response to courtroom torture, Zhucheng withdrew his original statement...