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Severe Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners at the Dalian Forced Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) The authorities at the Dalian Forced Labor Camp have
followed the Jiang faction since July 20, 1999 to persecute Falun Gong. They
torture practitioners savagely. In order to hide their crimes, they whitewash
the facts by telling lies to practitioners' families and the public. Practitioners detained at the Women's Division have experienced tortures in
small cells, and intensive brainwashing and forced labor, among others. Each
small cell (confinement room) holds three to four cages made from stainless
steel pipes. The cages are about 2 meters long, 1.5 meters wide and 2 meters
tall. Practitioners were locked in these cages to force them to abandon Falun
Gong. This was the primary place to torture practitioners. The division leaders
hand-selected common criminal inmates, usually repeat felons and very violent,
to monitor the practitioners. These people were chosen to torture the
practitioners. Every time they tortured practitioners, they either had approval
or direct orders from the division leaders and team leaders. They would wait
until other inmates went to work, then they would block the hallways so no one
could enter or get out, then the inmates would torture the practitioners. They
would gag the practitioners' mouths with rags so that no one could hear what
happened. The cruel tortures that the practitioners suffered are as follows: 2) Leg-splitting: practitioners were hung up in the air. The inmates tied
the top of the boxing helmet with ropes or ripped bed sheets into strips for
tying onto the cages. Practitioners' hands and one leg were chained or tied to
the cage. Only one leg was left hanging in the air. The criminal inmates would
pull the hanging leg to form 180 degree split from the other leg. They would
repeat the torture over and over while urging the practitioners to give up Falun
Gong. Some even said, "If you don't give up, we will break your legs."
Those practitioners who suffered from this kind of torture felt that their hips
were about to split. Some fainted from the pain and their legs lost sensation.
The inmates would say, "Her legs cannot feel anything now; let's wait until
the sensation comes back to her legs, then we'll try it again."
After this torture, some practitioners were unable to walk for about two to
four weeks. Some cannot walk until six months later. Practitioners Wang Lijun,
Man Chunrong, Zhong Shujuan, Sun Yan, Wang Shuhong, Wang Binhua and Wan Xiaohui
have suffered from this torture. The chief inmates personally involved in the
torture are Zhang Xiujuan, Gao Binling, Sun Bo, Guo Ling, Zhao Hui, Wang Xin, Ge
Hong and Zhang Yang. 3) Five horses splitting a body (also called fly the airplane) Practitioners were hung up onto the cages with their heads, arms and legs
pulled to form the shape of an airplane. Practitioners were fixed onto to the
cages in this position, and they were gagged with cleaning rags. 5) Long time sleep deprivation and forced standing: Division Leader Han
Jianmin decided that practitioners sent to small cells could not get any sleep
for seven days and nights during the first week. The practitioners were
handcuffed behind the back; they were told to keep standing and not to move. If
they could not stand rigid or dosed off, they would receive additional days of
torture. Practitioners were permitted only three bathroom breaks a day -
morning, noon and evening. The practitioners who were on hunger strike were
barred from using the toilet. Practitioner Wang Riqing couldn't control her
bowels. After the first week of sleep deprivation and forced standing, the
practitioners were allowed to sleep two hours a day (11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m).
The extended standing caused the practitioners' legs to swell and the skin to
turn black. It was very painful.
6) Brutal force-feeding: In order to protest the illegal imprisonment and
the mental torment and physical tortures, some practitioners went on hunger
strikes. As punishment, the guards and prison doctors performed force-feeding on
them. They forced a thick tube through the nose into the stomach. They
forced-fed practitioners twice a day. Some practitioners' nasal cavities and
esophagi were damaged, causing internal bleeding. When Zhang Xiaoli was on a
hunger strike, the guards left the tube in her stomach for a long time to
torture her.
7) Insults and psychological abuse: In the small cells, the inmates
pinned practitioners to the floor, then cuffed practitioners' hands behind their
back. After that, they would write dirty words on the practitioners' bodies that
curse Dafa. They also cut practitioners' hair against their will.
To force practitioners to give up Falun Gong, division leader Han Jianmin,
deputy leaders Wan Yalin and Yuan Lingyue ordered criminal inmates to hit them
with clubs and wooden bed boards. They also poured very hot water over
practitioners' bodies and used needles to poke practitioners. In order to force
Wang Riqing to give up practicing, the guards locked her in a cage with a
mentally ill person. After suffering from severe torture, practitioner Li Ping
was unable to move, but inmates Zhang Xiujuan, Xie Xiaoli used three
cotton-padded quilts to cover her in the summer. Furthermore, they put insects
on her body to bite her. After seeing that practitioner Li Ping couldn't take
care of her own bowel movement, criminal Xie Xiaoli then used a brush to brush
her anus. During winter time, the criminal inmates in charge of torturing
practitioners in the small cells left the doors and windows up to freeze the
practitioners who only had one shirt and no shoes and socks while keeping their
own winter coats on. They did this day and night. These criminal inmates also
crushed Wan Xiaohui's hands with their feet to force her to give up Falun Gong. After spending a period of time with the practitioners, the inmates knew that
these good people didn't deserve this kind of treatment. They knew the
practitioners are good people. One inmate said, "We do not want to torture
you, but the leader said, 'Giving Falun Gong mercy is giving cruelty to
yourselves. Don't you want to have your terms reduced and go home sooner?'
" Division Leader Han Jianmin Deputy Division Leader Yuan Lingyue On March 12, 2001, Dalian Forced Labor Camp founded Division 8, which was
located in a former classroom building. This was the center where male
practitioners were persecuted. The former division leader was Qiao Wei, whose
job was to execute orders from Hao Wenshuai (reformatory director), Zhang
Ziliang (Political commissioner) and Zhang Baolin (deputy director) to persecute
the practitioners. The general inmates did not participate in the slave labor.
Their job was to watch and persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The general
inmates class monitor was then Gao Zhonghe; the assistant monitor was
GaoYongping who later became class monitor. Later they both became major
villains in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The primary torture
methods used in the male division were: On March 19, 2001, the male division launched a major violent attack on
practitioners to force them to abandon Falun Gong. In one day, more than 100
practitioners suffered electric baton shocking. The guards and criminal inmates
stripped practitioners of their clothes, handcuffed their hands behind the back
and gagged them with cleaning rags. They then poured water on the floor and
pushed the practitioners onto the floor, face down. They put two chairs over
practitioners' bodies and had two persons sitting on the chairs. Using high
voltage batons, guards and inmates worked together to continuously shock the
practitioners' entire body, including the most sensitive parts, such as the anus
and genitals. Practitioner Li Jisheng, a 58-year-old man from the Dalian
Development Zone was simultaneously shocked by five batons on his body and mouth
three times (each time the batteries on all five fully charged batons completely
ran out electricity). Later, the guards added three more batons, shocking him
with eight batons for two complete discharges. After the shocks, guards and
criminal inmates used rubber clubs to whip him. During the electric baton
shocking, Liu Jilian, a practitioner employed at the Dalian Petrochemical
Company, sustained a ruptured anus from the high voltage baton. His blood
splashed onto the white plastered wall, making a large stain. 3) "Three boards" torture
To torture the determined practitioners, guards removed several boards from
their beds, leaving only three pieces to support the head, lower back and legs.
Then, they used the old style handcuffs (can only move on one surface) to chain
practitioners' hands to the headboard or to the sides. They also hung
practitioners' feet onto the bed rails with shackles. They put the boxing
helmets on practitioners' heads. The practitioners were chained like this for
days and nights. Only during meals or bathroom breaks were they allowed to have
one hand free and the shackles removed. This torture lasted from several days to
several months. For all this time, practitioners were chained to the bed on the
three wooden boards with no showers, no face washing, no teeth brushing. It was
very painful all over the body and especially on the ankles. The torture made
them extremely weak, severely damaging their bodies and spirits. 5) Bending down (also called Flying Airplane):
The evil persons forced practitioners to face the wall. They then forced the
practitioners to bend down towards the wall and put their heads against the
wall. Their hands reached backwards to the extreme. Legs stayed straight. The
torture lasted very long time. The practitioners who went on a hunger strike were pushed onto wooden chairs
with straight backs. Their hands were tied to the rear legs of chairs. The
evildoers also tie the practitioners' legs to the chairs' front legs. Their
bodies were roped to the chair backs. Two inmates pulled their hair and ears
while prison doctors performed the force-feeding torture. 7) Force feeding with alcohol: The inmates even forced alcohol into practitioners who were on a hunger
strike. They forced strong liquor through the nostrils and mouth. After days of
a hunger strike without food or water, the practitioners were extremely weak.
Taking advantage of practitioners' vulnerability, the guards filled them with
large amounts of strong liquor every day. They knew that Dafa practitioners do
not smoke or drink alcohol. They claimed, "Are you still practicing? Huh? I
will waste your Gong." After the alcohol torture the practitioners were
unconscious. While awake, they kept vomiting. Practitioner Li Zhongke's suffered
heavy stomach bleeding and was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Guards stripped practitioners of their clothes and tied practitioners' hands
behind their backs. They pushed the practitioners onto the floor and wrote dirty
words on their bodies to slander Falun Gong. Qiao Wei: former division leader Dalian Forced Labor Camp address: Nanshancun, Front Street, Dalian Ganjingzi
Airport, Dalian, 116022 Dalian Forced Labor Camp Director: Hao Wenshuai, 86-411-6859017 (office),
846-95798 (home), 86-135-00700718 (cell) The women's division evil police: Division 8 evil police: Dalian Judicial Bureau Below are some office numbers of Dalian Judicial Bureau Written on October 12, 2004. |