A Practitioner from Shandong Province Demonstrates the Tortures She Suffered Over the Last Several Years (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Su Qing (alias) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Shengli Petroleum Field of Dongying City, Shandong Province. Since Jiang's faction started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, she has suffered from all kinds of torture at various detention centers, dispatch offices and labor camps. The following are just several examples of the many tortures she has experienced over the last several years, along with her demonstration and narration.

In September of 1999, I was illegally detained at my own work unit. Because I firmly refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, the security guard punished me. I was forced to squat while holding my arms out parallel to the ground. My hips were not allowed to touch my feet and I had to stay for an extremely long time in this half-squatting position. It did not matter how many mosquitoes bit me or how uncomfortable my body was, I was not allowed to move. My body trembled uncontrollably. They not only used bright lights to shine right in my face to prevent me from closing my eyes, but also often threatened me, sending sparks flying from an electric baton and saying that if I did not keep the correct posture, they would shock me. This physical punishment lasted for two hours.

In February of 2002, while I was detained in the Shengli Petroleum Field's detention center, I refused to recite the detention rules. A female guard (the only female guard there) then made me raise both hands over my head and handcuffed them to the iron rail in an abandoned jail cell. It was winter and there was no glass in the windows and when the cold wind blew, my whole body trembled. Four days later, I was released from the handcuffs because they were afraid that my hands had become paralyzed. By that time, my hands, shoulders, and my whole body were all severely hurt and my hands had turned a purplish black color. My hands were numb for a long time afterwards and did not return to their normal color until after a very long time. (This picture doesn't begin to convey the pain that was caused by this torture.)

In November 2000, at the Dongcheng Detention Center in Beijing, I suffered a torture method called a "death twist." This torture tool was made from abandoned handcuffs wrapped with cloth so that they were not flexible and the two hands were locked together and immobilized. It was very painful every day and I could not lie down or sit without kindhearted people's help. I could also not use the restroom. After I went on a hunger strike for six days, they unlocked my hands. By that time my hands were completely numb.

In April of 2001, I was detained in Chaoyang Detention Center in Beijing. In order to protest the illegal detention, I went on a hunger strike. They tried to force-feed me, and I firmly resisted. During the struggle, I accidentally knocked my head against a pane of glass. The thick glass was broken into pieces and lay on the ground. My head had a gaping wound that later had to have twenty stitches. Blood was pouring out and spread into my hair, my clothing and the towel that they used to try to stop the bleeding. I was not allowed to go to the restroom. They then secured me to a bed board and continued the force-feeding. Because I had lost so much blood, I was injected with an unknown substance. They did not remove the force-feeding tube (for the convenience of the next forced-feeding) and my tongue tip could touch the feeding tube. Every time I swallowed, my throat hurt. It was extremely painful.

My legs were tied to a wooden stick tied under the bed board with rope while my arms were wrapped with 3-inch wide transparent tape and tied to another wooden stick placed under the bed board. Because my arms were tightly wrapped and bound, the blood circulation was completely blocked. This caused my fingers to swell until they turned purple. Because the air could not penetrate the transparent tape, my arms felt very uncomfortable. This method was used because it would not leave any kind of scar. However, it caused the skin between the tape wrappings to develop pus-filled blisters. Even today, three years later, the scars caused by this torture are still visible on my skin. There was a young woman there who also experienced this torture. When she was tied up with this transparent tape, her whole arms were filled with these yellow blister scars because there were gaps between the tape wrappings. The detention center's doctor angrily said, "The next time when using tape to tie people up, do not leave any gaps between the tape. These scars would then be prevented." They were afraid of leaving any evidence behind. Therefore in order to hide their crimes, he put some medicine on the scar areas.

The information above is a description of simplified versions of some of the torture methods that I personally experienced, but the pain and suffering felt during those tortures is very hard to describe in words. There are still many torture methods that we have not mentioned. However, I wanted to use my personal experience to expose just some of the methods that Jiang's faction uses to torture Falun Gong practitioners in China.

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