Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps, Part 1
1. "Backing up an airplane:" Criminal cell leaders often
use this persecution and torture method on practitioners on the instigation of
policemen and jail guards. This torture requires practitioners to bend over
while holding the legs straight. Then, with the feet close together, the arms
are lifted to the highest position possible, with the hands touching the wall.
If practitioners can't bear it, the prisoners in the cells and designated
torturers will gang up to beat them. (Figure 1)
Figure
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2. The evil force often uses this method to beat and torture practitioners, and
force them to give up their beliefs. Vicious people use electric batons,
rubber tubes, and "wolf teeth" sticks to beat practitioners. The
insults and beatings given to female practitioners are often even more brutal. (Figure
2)
Figure 2
3. "Tiger Bench" is also one of the torture methods used on
practitioners. Practitioners' knees are tightly tied on a "Tiger
Bench" [a small iron bench]. Usually some hard objects are
inserted underneath the practitioner's lower legs or ankles to make it
harder for them to tolerate this abuse. (Figure 3)
Figure 3
4. "Dead Person's Bed" or "Big Letter Board:" This
torture method is what I myself have witnessed. It is used to torture
practitioners who are on a hunger strike to protest and who do not yield to
any unreasonable demands. Practitioners who are on hunger strike are tied to
the "Dead Person's Bed" so that their hands and feet can't move.
Jail guards and prisoners force-feed them using the " feeding through
the nose" method. Many practitioners have lost their lives from this
torture. (Figure 4)
Figure 4
5. "Sitting on the Triangle Iron Board:" This torture method has
been described by practitioners who walked out of the evil places like
detention centers and forced labor camps. After sitting on the iron board,
practitioners' hips bleed and fester endlessly. (Figure 5)
Figure 5
6. The "Electric Baton" is the most-used torture method by
policemen and jail guards to persecute practitioners. Electric batons of
high voltage--30,000 volts--are used to shock practitioners' sensitive and
private places, like the mouth, the root of the ear, the central part of the
sole of the foot, center of the palm of the hand, penis, private parts and
nipples. Sometimes, multiple batons are used together to torture
practitioners. (Figure 6)
Figure 6
7. I witnessed this torture. The foot shackle is combined with handcuffs. One
hand is handcuffed to the other hand between two legs. The shackle weighs
over 20 pounds. The policemen torture determined practitioners this way for
a long time. The practitioners who are tortured this way cannot go to sleep,
walk, stand, use the bathroom, or eat a meal. They have to walk in a
half-squatting and bowing position. (Figure 7)
Figure 7
8. "Carrying a Sword on the Back" is one of the most cruel methods
to torture practitioners. In order to prevent practitioners from doing
exercises or whenever practitioners do not obey the unreasonable requests of
the guards, the policemen in the detention centers and forced labor camps
apply this inhumane torture to persecute practitioners. Usually, this
position causes extreme pain in just 20 minutes. However, the policemen
handcuff practitioners this way for as long as 4 hours. (Figure 8)
Figure 8
9. "Tying the Ropes" is another inhumane torture method applied to
practitioners during interrogation and during the persecution of determined
practitioners in forced labor camps, detention centers and police
departments of Jiang Zemin's criminal regime. With both arms tightly tied
behind the back, both feet off the ground or only the toes barely touching
the ground, one is hung from a high place with rope. Sometime there are
sharp sticks on the rope. When the rope is tightly fastened, the rope will
cut into one's flesh, which is extremely painful. "Hanging up
once" means one time of tying the rope. As a severe punishment, this
torture was only applied at most twice to criminals who tried to escape from
the detention centers. But the police tie practitioners with the rope 8 or 9
times. It is really inhumane. (Figure 9)
Figure 9
10. "Handcuff behind the back:" In order to prevent practitioners
from doing the exercises, the police handcuff practitioners behind their
backs for a long time. Practitioners handcuffed in this way cannot use the
bathroom, eat or sleep. (Figure 10)
Figure 10
11. "Being confined in a solitary compartment" is one of the torture
methods applied to brutally persecute practitioners. The height of the cage
is shorter than a person's height. The width and length is difficult for a
person, for one can neither stand straight nor lie down. Except for a small
barred door, all openings are tightly sealed. No light comes in.
Practitioners are locked up in these small cells like that because they are
determined to tell the truth and do not yield to the unreasonable
requirements. Sometimes they are locked up this way for 120 days. They are
mentally and physically tortured. (Figure 11)
Figure 11
12. Many Dafa practitioners who escaped from the evil's dens say that in the
cell they often heard miserable crying from the hallway and often saw
bruises all over Dafa practitioners' bodies from being brutally beaten. Some
practitioners fainted and were dragged away by evil guards, policemen or
abetting, common criminals. The practitioner's life circumstances are
uncertain. (Figure 12)
Figure 12
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