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Crimes of Torture Committed by Luyuan Police Department, Changchun City
By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Officials from the Luyuan Police Department in
Changchun City, Jilin Province worked with the officials from the First Division
of the Changchun City Police Department and the Changchun City 610
Office to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Hundreds of practitioners
have been tortured and persecuted in this area. Luyuan Police Department
officials actively participated and were directly involved in the persecution
and torture of practitioners who tapped into the Changchun City cable TV station
in March 5, 2002 to broadcast Falun Gong truth-clarification videos.
In relation to this incident, several practitioners were sentenced to long
prison terms, some were disabled or even tortured to death. There was a room in the Luyuan Police Department where police tied
practitioners to the tiger bench with ropes and handcuffs. The tiger
bench was a long chair made of steel bars that had a back. The police would tie
heavy objects to practitioners' ankles when they were on the bench. This form of
torture was already very painful, yet the police also tortured practitioners
using various other methods while they were confined to the bench. The police
would pull their hair while punching their heads or throats; practitioners would
be suffocated by having plastic bags placed over their heads; water was poured
into their mouths to choke them; their fingers or toes were burned; nails were
driven into their fingernails or toe nails; and they were often shocked with
electric batons. For the cruel torture method called "tying the ropes," the police
would tie practitioners' hands behind their backs with thin ropes or handcuffs,
and then hang them up by their wrists. The ropes or the handcuffs cut into the
flesh and the wrists would hold the weight of the entire body. Many
practitioners lost consciousness several times during this torture, some lost
controls of their bowels, some practitioners' arms became dislocated, and others
had bruises all over their bodies. While the practitioners were being hung up,
the police would cause them to swing, which would increase their pain, or the
practitioners would be beaten with bats. The police tried all kinds of evil
means to force practitioners to give up their righteous faith. However, they
were unable to succeed. Practitioners who refused to renounce Falun Gong had their heads covered with
black bags and were taken to a secret place near the Jingyuetan area of
Changchun City for further torture. In this secret place, the police used a
severe torture method involving the "tiger bench." Practitioners were
forced to sit on the tiger bench with a finger-width steel bar pressed across
their stomachs. They were then forced to bend over the steel bar with their
stomachs pressed against the bar. Their bones would be pressed against the bar
and would be injured. At the same time, the police would pull the practitioners'
arms up from behind, and electric shock batons would be used as well.
Practitioners were tortured repeatedly with this method, causing them
excruciating pain. In this secret place, there was a gloomy basement with cement walls and no
lights. There were several torture rooms in the basement. Candles were placed at
the doorsteps. It was said to be a living hell. Mr. Liu Chengjun (who was
tortured to death) and many other practitioners were tortured by all kinds of
inconceivable methods in this awful place. April 7, 2008 |