I’ve researched modern news articles. I’ve also actually found mentions in Amnesty International reports.
It’s never just tickling. It’s typically tickling combined with something truly vile and heinous. Its too dark to line up with my flavor of sadistic eroticism.
And it’s not always the traditional fetish tickling body parts either. Its people being driven to madness with a restrained head and feathers inserted into ears or nostrils.
If that’s your jam, that’s cool. I’m not trying to kinkshame anyone. For me it was just not pleasant to imagine when compared to fictional portayals.