Sayuti Salae suffered them all -- severe kicks along the body and a hard hit on his head -- when he was allegedly forced by police to admit he had 20 methamphetamine pills in his possession.
He says police attacked him on the night of July 1 in Pattani's Mayo district -- an incident which has turned him into a victim, not just a suspect, who is complaining about the injustice.
Police who pressed a drug charge against him, however, view the event differently.
Investigators got clues of drug suspects from an agent. They arrested Mr Sayuti, gathered evidence to back their accusation and hope to file the case to prosecutors soon.
This is an ordinary process -- at least in the eyes of Pattani police chief Pol Maj Gen Piyawat Chalermsi.
Their accounts of what happened differ drastically. While officers were preparing to nab their drug suspect, Mr Sayuti said he left home in Thung Yang Daeng district to retrieve his motorcycle from a friend who had borrowed it.
The 28-year-old told the Bangkok Post a senior living in the village asked him to meet a stranger named Laemang in Mayo district and lead him to his friend's home in Thung Yang Daeng. Mr Sayuti agreed.
"I just thought of getting my motorbike back," Mr Sayuti said.
Mr Sayuti called Mr Laemang and told the man to meet him in front of Ban Mueang Yon mosque. Riding pillion on a motorcycle of a friend, Mr Sayuti was driven to the mosque, but the pair saw nobody.
Mr Sayuti called Mr Laemang again who told him to change the meeting spot.
The place where the three met, in Khao Wang village, was "dark, quiet and isolated", Mr Sayuti said.
They did not talk long before Mr Sayuti left the group and crossed the road to relieve himself.
"That was when I saw shadows in the dark," Mr Sayuti said.
When he pointed his mobile phone light at it, a man suddenly dashed out and shouted "don't move."
"I ran and ran until I heard a gun going off several times," he said.
They stopped him at a roadside waterway. His friend fled on the motorcycle. The car was still there with the lights on, but whether Mr Laemang was inside and what happened to him were not mentioned during the interview.
Mr Sayuti only referred to a "group of men" who were later identified as police, according to Mr Sayuti's claim.
They ordered Mr Sayuti to walk towards the car and kneel in front of it.
"Suddenly someone kicked me in the face without conducting a body search or even asking anything," he said.
They also asked him where "the stuff" was, but Mr Sayuti told them he had no idea of what they were talking about.
In response, they kicked him again hit him in the head.
One man in the group shouted: "Your head got broken because you fell over, right?" Mr Sayuti sai. He was forced to agree with him for fear of being hit again.
Mr Sayuti was later taken to a hospital after another man told the group he found the "stuff" they were looking for and ordered Mr Sayuti to "point" at a spot he had run past to reach the waterway, he said.
Asked to respond to the incident, Pol Maj Gen Piyawat insisted the suspect resisted arrest which led to the fight and injuries.
A check of Mr Sayuti's background found he had taken drugs, the Pattani police chief said, adding the suspect also tested positive that day.
Mr Sayuti was allegedly forced to sign his name on a piece of paper the same night he was admitted to the hospital, but he refused, claiming he was in a bad condition and too weak to write.
On the following day, Mr Sayuti read the note and found it contained incidents he claimed "did not match the truth," so he decided not to sign.
His older sister later asked a police officer assigned to watch him what happened. He told her that Mr Sayuti faced a drug charge because police found the suspect had 20 speed pills in his possession.
She asked the officer to tell the whole story, but the policeman claimed he did not know the details and had just changed shifts.
Mr Sayuti told his sister not to believe it.
"How didn't he know what happened? He was the one who assaulted me," Mr Sayuti claimed.
The officers tried to take him from the hospital, but his sister insisted her brother had the right to treatment, Mr Sayuti said. He was discharged on July 10.
His sister filed a complaint over what she and Mr Sayuti viewed as irregularities in the arrest with the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, the state arm working on solving the insurgency in the far South through development projects.
Mr Sayuti said he wants to "fight the police though I know I may not win." If he chooses to confess, he may be jailed for two years. But this is not the road he prefers.
"I can't admit to a wrongdoing I did not do," he said.
It is unclear how his case will end as police are questioning a doctor at the hospital and will ask prosecutors to indict Mr Sayuti this week, according to Pol Maj Gen Piyawat.
The case came to light amid reports that some police in Mayo take bribes from drug suspects and told informants to resell seized drugs.
