(Clearwisdom.net) Below are some torture devices used on Falun Gong
practitioners detained in Jinzhou District Detention Center, Dalian City,
Liaoning Province.
Torture Device: Death Frame
This device is a rectangular frame made of metal tubes. On the four points
of the frame are four cuffs made of thick metal strips. The two smaller cuffs
on the top are used to secure the victim's hands, and the two larger ones on
the bottom are used to secure the victim's feet. When such a torture is used on
someone, that person has to bend his or her body, unable to straighten the body
or sit down. When the four limbs are cuffed to this frame, the victim has to
endure excruciating pain. Whenever the victim moves any one of his or her
limbs, the other three limbs will be painfully wrenched. When the victim is
interrogated or force-fed at a different place, they then have to walk a long
distance with great difficulty. Every step results in indescribable pain.
Non-practitioner detainees would collapse after having such a device put on
them for a day or two, but practitioners are often forced to wear such devices
for as long as a dozen days. As a result, their hands and feet are badly
swollen. Sometimes there are too many practitioners detained, so the guards
then cuff two practitioners together to one single frame. In this situation,
one hand and one foot of each practitioner are cuffed to the frame. This is
even more painful. When only person is cuffed to this frame, they can still
manage to relieve their pain by adjusting their position very slowly. When two
people are cuffed together, however, one person's movement will often cause
severe pain to both people.
Torture Device: Rubber Board
This device is made of rubber. Two types of these devices are used. One type
of this device has is covered with rivets on both sides of the board, and is
used specifically to beat male practitioners. The other type of this device
does not have rivets, and is used to beat female practitioners. In the Jinzhou
District Detention Center, the guards often used these boards to beat
practitioners. Zhang Shuquan is the prison doctor. He and two other guards have
beaten many practitioners using this device. Most of these practitioners are
actually from the same hometown (Dengshahe Town) as Zhang Shuquan. However,
Zhang was very brutal in beating his fellow citizens. He usually struck
practitioners' faces and heads with this board, causing some practitioners to
pass out immediately. Some practitioners' faces immediately turned black and
blue. When being hit with this board, the practitioners' faces often felt
excruciating pain and they felt dizzy.
Torture Device: Bamboo Board
The prison policeman Du Xianjun once used a bamboo board to hit a female
practitioner's face. As a result, her face was badly swollen, and there were
two long cuts on her face that bled profusely.
Torture Method: Force-feeding
Former director of Jinzhou District Detention Center, Du Xianjun, and the
current director, Fan, led guards to brutally force feed practitioners on
hunger strike. Several guards grabbed the practitioners by the hair and yanked
their heads backward. They had the practitioners sit on the bed board, chair,
or on the ground. Then, they inserted a plastic tube into the practitioner's
stomach through the mouth. They repeatedly jostled the tube back and forth to
cause injury and pain. Thus, the practitioner's esophagus was torn. The tube
was jostled in the mouth, throat, and esophagus, causing excruciating pain and
almost choking the practitioner. According to practitioners who suffered such
tortures, every time after the torture, they felt like they had come very close
to dying. Du Xianjun was extremely brutal. In order to escape the
responsibility for his crimes, he quit and transferred to a different work
unit. At the end of 2000, Du Xianjun and deputy director Wang Wenqi force-fed
over 20 practitioners and the scene during and after the force-feeding was too
horrifying to watch.
Torture Methods: Carrying Water Buckets
The prison police tied the practitioner's hands up to the heating pipe using
two very thick and hard nylon ropes. Then they poured water on the
practitioner's face. They brought in two water-filled rectangular buckets. Each
bucket contained about 45 to 55 pounds of water, and they used a long cotton
string to tie the two buckets together and put them over the practitioner's
shoulder. After a while, they used water to dampen the string used to tie the
buckets. Since the weather was very hot, a while later the string would attach
to the skin. The two policemen then each yanked one bucket back and forth over
the practitioner's shoulder. After several yanks, the skin on the shoulder and
neck would be torn. The body would be exhausted from supporting the two
buckets. After a while, the hands would swell up as well. About 30 minutes
later, the practitioner's two arms would become numb and lose feeling. After
such a torture, the arms would go dead and not be able to carry anything. After
this torture, it usually takes at least half a month for the practitioners to
be able to carry things again with their hands. Often it takes half a year
until the arms can gradually recover. Male practitioners Xu Zhibin and Miao
Junjie were once subjected to this torture. Currently, they are being detained
in the Wafangdian City Prison. A female practitioner was also put through this
torture, and even though the police filled the buckets half full when torturing
her, the pain of this torture was unbearable.
Torture Method: Slave Labor
In order to make money, the police in the Jinzhou District Detention Center
forced practitioners to do hard labor by having them make various kinds of
products.
Posting date: 7/20/2004
Original article date: 7/17/2004
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/6/30/78335.html