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Chapter II: Torture

For more than fifty years, the Chinese communist regime has had its way in de-

stroying people's wills and forcing them into submission through political persecution, tor-

ture, and killing. That was why the PRC government was so presumptuous at the begin-

ning of its persecution of Falun Gong, claiming it would eradicate Falun Gong in three

months. As the three months turned into six months, one year, two years, the violence

against Falun Gong has escalated from cruelty to craze.

Take the city of Dalian as an example. This city has three of the worst torture

camps of Falun Gong practitioners to its disgrace: the Dalian Labor Camp, the Yaojia De-

tention Center, and the Zhoushuizi Labor Camp. There, the police openly claim that they

have permission from Chinese president Jiang Zemin to beat Falun Gong practitioners to

death at will and with total impunity. They have come up with some of the cruelest tor-

ture devices, with evil names such as "hell trap," "death board," and "corpse stretch." They

have also "exported" their "experiences" and "techniques" for "transforming" Falun Gong

practitioners to other cities. They even conduct "exchange programs" to swap torture

squads with notorious torture camps such as Masanjia Labor Camp, Wanjia Labor Camp

and Heizuizi Labor Camp.

People who understand the true meaning of life are not going to give up their con-

science. Facing extreme torture, Falun Gong practitioners remain truthful to their faith.

Facing violence and injustice, they remain peaceful and tolerant. They do not even hate

their torturers, as so many of them have told the police, "It is the government's propa-

ganda that makes you hate Falun Gong so much. If my suffering can ease your hatred

even a little bit, I am willing to endure." Their great tolerance and righteousness have in-

spired numerous torturers to become Falun Gong practitioners.

Only the Righteous can command such steely conviction and moral power. Such

courage is displayed not only by one or two, or a few leaders, but by millions of Falun

Gong practitioners. This alone is enough to testify to the supremacy of Falun Gong's

teaching. In the words of a Chinese sage some 2,300 years ago: "Benevolence has no ri-

val."

In the following, we report to you some selected cases of police torture of Falun

Gong practitioners. These cases represent only a small fraction of the information sent to

us at great risk to the lives of Falun Gong practitioners in China. We hope they are

enough to show the evilness of the PRC government's persecution of Falun Gong.

More importantly, if these cases can help you to see the great sacrifice and courage

of Falun Gong practitioners and the teaching that endows them with such courage, their

sacrifice will not have been in vain.

Overview

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Repeated Beatings

1. Falun Gong practitioners detained in the

Xitiangezhuang Town Police Station of Miyun

County, Beijing

To force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce

Falun Gong, the police at the Xitiangezhuang Town

Police Station of Miyun County forced them to do ex-

haustive boot-camp drills during the day, and sit up

straight all night. The torture went on day after day.

Those who could not continue the day drill or fell

asleep at night would be severely beaten. After a few

days, many practitioners' feet became so swollen that

they had difficulty walking. The policemen were even

exhausted from hitting the practitioners. The police

then hired hoodlums to torture them. A woman in her

70s was beaten so severely that her face turned black

and purple. Her face was swollen so badly that she

could not open her eyes. Her buttocks and feet were

covered with bruises.

One female

practitioner was

slapped 16 times

when she refused to

renounce Falun

Gong. One of the

hoodlums took a

birch tree branch to

beat her buttocks

and kicked her pri-

vate parts. The hood-

lum also grabbed

and squeezed her

breasts and verbally

abused her with

filthy obscenities. He

then shoved his

hands inside her

clothes to grab her

breasts; he even

stripped off her skirt

and underwear,

claiming he wanted

to examine the

bruises on her but-

tocks.

2. Li Xin, male, Baoding City of Hebei Province

On January 18, 2001, Mr. Li Xin was arrested

and detained at the Xuanwu District Detention

Center in Beijing because he petitioned the govern-

ment on behalf of Falun Gong. Mr. Li was shocked on

sensitive areas by two high-voltage electric batons.

His body was soon covered with bruises and blisters.

After that, the police alternately poured cold water on

him and turned on a fan to blow cold winter air on

him, and then scalded him with boiling water. They

also whipped him with thorny bamboo sticks, and

then thrust the sticks up his anus. Mr. Li went on a

hunger strike to protest the torture.

Because Mr. Li re-

mained steadfast to Falun

Gong, he was transferred to a

cell with inmates on death

row. As soon as he entered

the cell, he was thrown to the

ground by the inmates inside.

They pinned him down, and

the head inmate kicked Mr.

Li's legs viciously. After

nearly an hour of torture, Mr.

Li's legs became black and

blue and he was unable to

move. On the thirteenth day,

Mr. Li's feet became very

swollen and his toes turned

completely black. That night,

he was sent to the hospital,

where the guards forcibly in-

jected him with a yellow-

colored solution. The next

day, a doctor told him that

his toes needed to be ampu-

tated. The detention center,

however, did not want to be

responsible for the conse-

quences, and the guards sim-

ply took Mr. Li out of the hos-

pital and put him on a train

bound for Baoding City.

Savage Beatings

Mr. Li's feet were se-

verely injured by torture

Savage Beatings

Falun Gong Practitioners in-

jured after torture in the Police

Station

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3. Liu Aiqing, female, 25, employee of the

Shouguang Phosphate Fertilizer Factory, resident

of Sunjiaji Town, Shouguang City, Shandong

Province

On June 4, 2001, Ms. Liu Aiqing was arrested

in Majia Village of Sunjiaji Town. She was forced to

stand outside in the scorching sun. The police grabbed

Ms. Liu by her shoulders and arms, punched her fore-

head, and slapped her face repeatedly. As a result, Ms.

Liu was covered with bruises, and her forehead, face,

and lips became swollen.

On the evening of

June 6, six drunken

policemen dragged

three Falun Gong

practitioners, includ-

ing Ms. Liu, to a room

and started another

round of savage beat-

ing. The policemen

g r a b b e d t h e

practitioners' hair and

took turns beating the

them on the torso or

the legs with metal

batons. They also

used high-voltage

electric batons. Dur-

ing the torture, a

group of policemen

beat Ms. Liu with

leather belts, "Billy

Clubs" (an iron or

lead bar covered by

rubber), and electric

batons. When she passed out as a result of the ex-

treme pain, the police poured cold water on her to re-

vive her, and then resumed beating her. The torture

continued for several hours.

The next day, Ms. Liu was near death and was

sent to the hospital. A medical examination revealed

many serious injuries including hematuria, hypoten-

sion, and dehydration. Many blood clots were pumped

out of her swollen legs. Several days' later, surgical

drainage was performed leaving her right leg with two

large holes.

One morning at the hospital, Ms. Liu was forci-

bly given an injection. Shortly afterwards, she lost

consciousness When she awoke at around 4 p.m., she

noticed that plastic surgery had been performed to re-

place the damaged skin on her legs. This surgery was

performed to cover up the evidence of the extreme tor-

ture Ms. Liu had endured.

4. Zhang Pinghua, female, 38, Weicheng District,

Weifang City, Shandong Province

On July 21, 2000, Ms. Zhang Pinghua went to

Beijing to appeal to the government for an end to the

persecution of Falun Gong. She was sent to the Qing-

dao Administrative Office. As soon as she arrived,

three men began beating her with their fists, and

stomping her with the hard heels of their shoes. They

beat her face, head, chin, chest, shoulders and neck.

Whenever Ms. Zhang fell down, they pulled her up

and continued beating her. One man grabbed her hair

and slammed her head against the wall. Then he

pushed her down onto the floor and stepped on her

head. The other two

men kicked her face

with their shoes.

Ms. Zhang's face

became swollen im-

mediately. After

this torture, Ms.

Zhang felt pain eve-

rywhere. There

were black and blue

marks and swollen

wounds all over her

body.

Head Banged Against a Wall

Jiang Jie, female, resident of Fushun City, Liaoning

Province

Ms. Jiang Jie, a Falun Gong practitioner, was

incarcerated at the Wanjia Labor Camp, Harbin City.

During the day, she was forced to do hard labor. At

night, she was tortured by sleep deprivation and sav-

age beatings. The guards forced her to stay awake,

and whenever she dozed off, they would beat her.

They pulled her hair and banged her head against the

wall. They beat and shocked her head and other parts

of her body with electric batons. She was beaten so

badly that she lost control of her bowels. Bruises were

all over her face, and blood ran from her mouth and

nose.

Photos of the injury to Liu

Aiqing's leg

Bruises still strongly visible even

eight days after Zhang Pinghua was

beaten.

Savage Beatings

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Stripped Naked and Beaten

1. Li Fengqi, female, 28, from Leshan City, Sichuan

Province

2. You Quanfang, female, 32, an entrepreneur,

from Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province

One day in July 2000, the guards at Nanmusi

Women's Labor Camp of Zizhong City, Sichuan Prov-

ince dragged Ms. Li Fengqi and Ms. You Quanfang

into a small room. They ordered four to five inmates to

strip the clothes off the two practitioners and pin

them down on a table. The guards and inmates took

turns beating them with spiked wooden clubs. The

beating went on until the inmates and guards became

exhausted. The beating left the practitioners bleeding,

with puncture wounds all over their bodies.

Head Severely Injured

Cao Zhenqi, male, 36, a farmer from Dongmawan

Village, Taerfu County, Changyi, Shandong Province

Mr. Cao Zhenqi had been detained several

times. On February 15, 2000, Mr. Cao Zhenqi went to

Beijing to appeal to the government for Falun Gong.

On February 18, he was arrested and taken to the

Taerfu County Police Station. The director of the po-

lice station, Shao Mingyi, beat Mr. Cao's face and ribs

with a baton. One day in July 2000, when Mr. Cao

was doing farm work, the county police came and ar-

rested him again and took him to the police station.

There he was interrogated. Because he refused to re-

nounce Falun Gong, policemen Zhang Zaicheng, Han

Yuncheng, and Yu Puchang beat him until he lost con-

sciousness. They then turned Mr. Cao over to his rela-

tives and left,

as they did

not want the

responsibility

for his possi-

ble death. His

family sent

him to Zhan-

gling Hospi-

tal. Mr. Cao

did not regain

consciousness

until the

morning of

August 1,

2000.

Beaten on Buttocks with Steel-

Cored Plastic Clubs

1. Shi Yingchun, Han Guiyan, Li Xiuzhen,

Zheng Sufen, female, residents of Liaoning Prov-

ince

In October 2000, Ms. Shi Yingchun, Ms. Han

Guiyan, Ms. Zheng Sufen, Ms. Li Xiuzhen and her

husband were arrested and detained at the Huludao

Detention Center of Liaoning Province. Ms. Shi and

Ms. Han were beaten on their buttocks everyday by

guard Li and guard Zhou using steel-cored plastic

clubs. Their buttocks were lacerated and bleeding dur-

ing and after the beatings. Once Ms. Zheng missed a

few words in reciting the jail rules. Guard Li and

Guard Zhou beat her buttocks more than one hundred

times with steel-cored plastic clubs. She almost passed

out. Since Ms. Li and her husband refused to renounce

Falun Gong, the guards beat them with the clubs.

Both Ms. Li and her husband were knocked down to

the concrete floor and they were continuously beaten.

Their buttocks were bruised and the skin severely lac-

erated. As result of the beating, Ms. Li had a heart at-

tack and her husband had so much pain in his ribs

that he had difficulty breathing.

2. Hou Zhanhai, Li Qiang, Li Qingru, Niu Jun-

hui, Ji Wentao, Fu Hongwei, Guo Zhende,

male, residents of Jilin Province

On March 13, 2001, Falun Gong practitioners

went on a hunger strike to protest the inhuman treat-

ment at the Jilin Labor Camp. More than twenty

camp guards used electric batons to shock the practi-

tioners. They stripped off the practitioners' pants and

beat their buttocks with steel-cored plastic clubs. Four

guards beat Mr. Niu Junhui on his chest and back

with the clubs. The beating was so severe that Mr.

Niu had to be sent to a hospital for emergency treat-

ment. Mr. Li Qiang was beaten until he lost conscious-

ness. Mr. Li Qingru and Mr. Guo Zhende were beaten

until they almost lost consciousness. The

practitioners' buttocks were full of bruises after the

beatings. Mr. Hou was not able to sit for more than

ten days.

3. Luo Xiaoyu, female, 40s, resident of Sichuan

Province

In the summer of 2000, Ms. Luo Xiaoyu was de-

Scars on Cao Zhenqi's head

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tained at the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp. To force

her to renounce Falun Gong, the camp guards fre-

quently beat Ms. Luo with spiked clubs. Several times

Ms. Luo lost consciousness from the violent beatings.

Ms. Luo's whole body was swollen. The flesh on her

buttocks was torn and bleeding, and pus kept running

down her legs.

Beaten with a Poisonous Plant

Live Hemp is a perennial plant. Its stems and

leaves are covered with fine hairs and sharp thorns,

which are poisonous. After contact with the hemp

plant, the skin immediately becomes inflamed, in-

tensely itchy and painful. According to some victims,

it is even more painful than being needled in the fin-

gers.

1. Ye Xinghua, male, resident of Sichuan Province

On July 25, 2000, Shen Xingfa, the director of

the police station of Jiulong Town ordered the police

to use wire and hemp stalks to whip Falun Gong prac-

titioners. Fourteen Falun Gong practitioners detained

at the Jiulong Town government building were tor-

tured. Many practitioners fainted from the whipping

and the hemp poison. The police poured cold water on

the practitioners to revive them, so that they could

suffer further torture. Mr. Ye Xinghua was stripped

down to his underwear and whipped with hemp stalks.

Mr. Ye fainted many times from the whipping and

hemp poison. He was revived with cold water and

whipped again. His whole body became swollen. This

torture did not stop until the police were too tired to

continue. While Mr. Ye was still unconscious, he was

handcuffed to a tree for four hours in the hot sun. He

was only taken down because the police saw that he

had been unconscious for a long time, and realized

that he was near death.

2. Huang Tianming, male, resident of Liulin Vil-

lage, Jinma Town, Wenjiang County, Sichuan

Province

On June 29, 2000, Mr. Huang Tianming was

arrested because he was a Falun Gong practitioner. At

about 8 p.m., the village officials took Mr. Huang to

the conference room of the village government build-

ing and handcuffed him to a chair. They brought a

supply of poisonous fresh hemp and wrapped Mr.

Huang's face and upper body with the plants. They

then beat Mr. Huang's face and body with a foot-long

bamboo stick for over two hours until the fresh hemp

on Mr. Huang's body was shredded into small pieces.

Mr. Huang's eyes were swollen and his face was de-

formed. There were bruises and blood all over his body.

3. Zhang Qingshu, male, resident of Wenjiang

County, Sichuan Province

4. Zhong Sufang, female, resident of Wenjiang

County, Sichuan Province

On June 29, 2000, Mr. Zhang Qingshu and Ms.

Zhong Sufang were arrested for practicing Falun

Gong and detained at a police station in Wenjiang

County. The police handcuffed Mr. Zhang and hung

him up by his wrists until his toes barely touched the

ground. He was then beaten with batons and wooden

clubs, and was whipped with poisonous hemp until he

fainted. He was left hanging until the next day. Ms.

Zhong was tortured in a similar way. She was beaten

with wooden sticks and whipped with the hemp. Ms.

Zhong was also forced to take off her socks and stand

on hemp leaves in her bare feet.

Beaten until Paralyzed

Lu Changjun, male, from Shuihua City, Heilongjiang

Province

Beijing Tuanhe Labor Camp is notorious for

hideous torture of Falun Gong practitioners. In Febru-

ary 2001, the labor camp forced practitioners to par-

ticipate in an anti-Falun Gong brainwashing class.

When practitioners refused to cooperate, the guards

incited other inmates to beat them severely. Mr. Lu

Changjun was tied to a bed and beaten until his spi-

nal cord was fractured. As a result, Mr. Lu was para-

lyzed. To cover up this crime, the associate director of

the labor camp, Zhuang Xuhong, the lead of 2nd team,

Jiang, and the assistant leader of the 2nd team, Ni,

coerced others inmates into saying that Mr. Lu broke

his back falling down while he was mopping the floor.

Savage Beatings

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The Rampant Spread of Scabies

At certain forced labor camps and detention

centers, Falun Gong practitioners have been forced to

sleep on wet weed mats that were stored in the snow

during the winter. The practitioners usually contract

scabies from this rotting, unsanitary bedding.

As of November 6, 2001, 98% of the practitio-

ners detained at the Wanjia Labor Camp had scabies.

Their bodies were swollen all over and covered with

pus and blood. Some of the practitioners' arms were

swollen to the diameter of a cereal bowl, while their

legs were twice as thick as normal. There were practi-

tioners who could not walk or take care of themselves

due to the severe scabies infections. They also had to

endure the intense itchiness, which caused them to

lose sleep at night. Although the practitioners were

suffering from scabies, they were still overloaded with

work and tortured everyday. The situation is abomi-

nable. At this point there are practitioners who have

been suffering from scabies

for nearly a year. Some

practitioners' bodies are

completely covered with

scabies.

Forced to Sit in a "Sewage Pot"

Ms. Zhou, female, resident of Sichuan Province

Ms. Zhou was incarcerated in the Nanmusi

Women's Labor Camp. One day in 2000, the guards

saw Ms. Zhou doing Falun Gong exercises in the cell.

They ordered the inmates to throw her into a manure

pit and they forced her to sit there for a long time.

They even dumped buckets of sewage on her.

Garbage Stuffed into the Mouth

Twelve Falun Gong practitioners who were in-

carcerated in the Kaiping Labor Camp of Tangshan

City, Hebei Province have experienced all kinds of tor-

ture and degrading treatment. On one occasion, the

guards tied them up and stuffed dirty sanitary nap-

kins and garbage into their mouths.

Phlegm Poured into the Mouth

A Falun Gong practitioner from Zhongyi Village,

Yingji Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province

This Falun Gong practitioner was arrested

merely because he practices Falun Gong. During his

protracted detention, the police tried to force him to

renounce Falun Gong by starving him, not allowing

him to use the toilet, and sometimes forcing him to

kneel down for extended periods. If he refused, he

would be handcuffed with one hand behind his

shoulder and the other hand at the back of his body--a

torture called "carrying a sword."

They also kicked him in the eyes with leather

boots. They poured cold water down his neck, then

poured boiling hot water on his head and feet. They

even poured phlegm into his mouth and stuffed his

mouth with a woman's dirty menstrual pad. Adding

further insult, the police threw rotten apples at him

and burned his feet with a cigarette lighter.

Torture under Extremely Unsanitary Conditions

Pictures of Falun Gong prac-

titioners detained in the Wanjia

Labor Camp. The practitioners

have scabies all over their bod-

ies

Torture under Extremely Unsanitary Conditions

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Force-Feeding with Urine

Wu Longbo, male, 27, a small business owner, Jilin

City, Jilin Province

On October 16, 1999, Mr. Wu Longbo was sen-

tenced to one-year of forced labor at the Jilin City La-

bor Camp because he practices Falun Gong. The labor

camp tried everything to force him to renounce Falun

Gong, but Mr. Wu refused. The labor camp then arbi-

trarily extended his detention for three more months,

and then for another six months.

To protest his arbitrary detention, Mr. Wu

went on a hunger strike on February 21, 2001. The

directors and guards used seven electric batons simul-

taneously to beat him that night. They forced him to

write notes to denounce Falun Gong, or he would not

be allowed to sleep. They even poured urine down his

throat. The humiliating torture plunged Mr. Wu into

severe mental depression.

Force-Feeding with Feces

1. Yao Xiurong, female, 57, a teacher and resident

of Nanyuan Street, Kuiwen District, Weifang City,

Shandong Province

For her petition for Falun Gong, Ms. Yao Xi-

urong was arrested and detained in the Nanyuan

Community Center for one month. While she was in

detention, the officials hired ruffians to torture her

and other Falun Gong practitioners. They were

stripped naked and forced to stand on the ice outside

in the cold. Because Ms. Yao refused to renounce Fa-

lun Gong, they force-fed her with feces and urine,

which the officials had just excreted. The officials also

extorted 100,000 Yuan from her family for her release.

2. Li Zetao, male, 24, resident of Shimo Town, Ji-

angjin County, Chongqing City, Sanxia Province

Mr. Li Zetao was sent to the #7 Team,

Xishanping Labor Camp on September 8, 2000. In

order to force him to renounce Falun Gong, the camp

guards Tian Xiaohai, Gao Ding and Li Yong ordered

criminal inmates to torture him. Starting on May 29,

2001, Mr. Li was forced to carry human feces to a

dump site during the day. When he was too tired to

move, the guards beat him with a pole and even force-

fed him with feces and urine. At night, he was not

allowed to rest. They continued to torture him

physically and mentally. They folded a newspaper into

a hat and put it on his head, tied his two arms to a

stick to form a straight line, hung a barrel full of urine

on each of his arms, and forced him to hold up the bar-

rels for hours. At the same time, they poked him in

the back with a broom. They punched and kicked him

while verbally abusing him. The guard even inserted a

paring knife up his anus and jiggled it around. Mr. Li

was tortured to death on May 30, 2001.

Li Zetao was force-fed with feces and urine.

Torture under Extremely Unsanitary Conditions

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Chi Chunxia, female, resident of Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province

On the night of January 3, 2002, policemen rushed into the home of Falun Gong

practitioners Ms. Chi Chunxia and Mr. Xue Yanrong. They ransacked the couple's

home without a warrant. Unable to find what they wanted, they forcibly took the cou-

ple and their two-year-old child to the Department of Politics and Security and interro-

gated them that night. The police beat Ms. Chi and Mr. Xue severely to force them to

release information about other Falun Gong practitioners. During the interrogation,

Ms. Chi was beaten for a prolonged period of time. Finally, they forced her to jump out

of the fourth floor of the building. She fell to a balcony on the second floor. The impact

knocked Ms. Chi into a coma. However, the police paid no attention to her and left her

on the balcony for the remainder of the night. It was not until the following afternoon

that they sent Ms. Chi to the People's Hospital of Mishan City.

Because she was left out in the cold for hours, Ms. Chi's face, feet, and hands

were all severely frostbitten. Her cranial blood vessels had ruptured. The doctors had

to cut her trachea to supply her with oxygen.

Her family members were required to bear all of the medical expenses. Her hus-

band, Mr. Xue, was detained at the Mishan City Detention Center. As a result, Ms.

Chi's two-year-old child has been sent to Mr. Xue's brother and sister-in-law to be

cared for.

Forced to Jump from a Tall Building

Chi Chunxia hospital-

ized after the fall.

Chi Chunxia was in critical condition

Scars on Chi's head after surgery

Ms. Chi's feet frostbitten

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"Death Board" or "Death Bed"

The "death board" (or "death bed") is a particu-

larly hideous torture device. It is an iron or wood

board with handcuffs and shackles to lock the victims

four limbs in a stretched position. A victim is usually

confined to a death board for a minimum of seven

days. As movement is completely restricted, the con-

finement of a victim on the death bed leads to painful

muscular atrophy. In severe cases, the victim even

loses control of bladder and bowel movements. The ex-

cretion of stool and urine is directly on the iron bed,

resulting in an unsanitary condition. To save them-

selves the trouble of cleaning, the torturers usually

strip the victim down to a T-shirt or even naked, add-

ing to the humiliation. Since the victim is not released

from the board for many days, torture on the death

board is usually coupled with the torture of force-

feeding.

The death board was originally devised for use

against political dissidents subjected to the death pen-

alty. As these prisoners of conscience usually have un-

yielding convictions, they tend to behave courageously

even when they were sentenced to death at govern-

ment-staged public show trials. To create the image of

these people being destroyed of will power, the politi-

cal dissidents are usually confined to the death board

for many days before a

show trial. At the show

trial, the police will hold

the victim until the mo-

ment of death sentenc-

ing. The muscular atro-

phy resulting from the

death board torture will

cause the victim to

wither and collapse on

the ground at the mo-

ment of sentencing

making the government

seem powerful and the

victim defeated.

1. Wang Xiufen, female, in her 30s, English teacher

at Jilin Zuojia Special Products School, resident of

Jilin Province

On February 4, 2000, the guards at Heizuizi

Labor Camp, Changchun City, Jilin Province took Ms.

Wang Xiufen to a room and confined her to a death

board. A guard then ordered a criminal inmate to

open the all the doors and windows. They pulled her

underwear down, and pull her T-shirt up to expose

her to the cold wind. Ms. Wang was left on the death

board and in the cold for 18 days. The torture left Ms.

Wang paralyzed from the waist down, even after being

taken off of the bed.

2. Wang Xiuzhi, female, college instructor, resident

of Jilin Province

In May 2001,

the guards at the

Heizuizi Labor

Camp assaulted

Ms. Wang when

they saw her doing

Falun Gong exer-

cises. Five guards

took turns beating

and shocking her

with electric batons.

Afterwards, they

confined her to a

death bed. She was

not able to get up and had to defecate and urinate on

the bed. This torture lasted eight full days, during

which time her arms were in an extremely painful po-

sition. On the ninth day when they untied the belts,

her arms were completely numb. She was not able to

take care of herself for two months after this torture.

3. Zhang Yuhui, female, resident of Jilin Province

In early 2000, Ms. Zhang Yuhui was locked to a

"death board" by the guards at the Heizuizi Labor

Camp for one month. She had to eat and relieve her-

self on the bed. The belts tightly strapped her arms

and ankles to the sharp, rusty metal bed frame, caus-

ing deep bloody gashes. She could not rinse off, bathe,

or change her clothes.

Torture by Devices

Tied on the "Death Bed" during

the night

"Death Bed"

Torture by Devices

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"Tiger Bench"

"Tiger bench" is a small iron bench. It is ap-

proximately 20 cm (8 inches) tall. The victim's hands

are tied together behind the back while his knees are

tied down to a bench. Some hard objects such as

bricks are inserted under the tied legs, causing the

legs to bend upward in an unnatural way that causes

them to break at the knees.

1. Liu Hongtao, male, 31, resident of Harbin City

2. Zhang Qi, male, resident of Heilongjiang Prov-

ince

In 2000, Mr. Liu

Hongtao and Mr.

Zhang Qi were sen-

tenced to the Chan-

glinzi Labor Camp in

Harbin City of

Heilongjiang Prov-

ince for one year.

Their families were

not allowed to visit

them or send them

personal daily-use

items. While they

were illegally de-

tained in the labor camp, they were constantly tor-

tured in various ways. They were forced to stand for a

long time, locked into small cages, beaten with electric

batons, deprived of sleep, denied the use of the toilet,

tied to a "tiger bench" for extended periods of time,

forced to do hard labor from early in the morning until

midnight, and forced to read articles slandering Falun

Gong.

3. Li Yanming, female, resident of Changchun City,

Jilin Province

On January 25, 2002, Ms. Li Yanming was

taken away from her home by the police from

Changchun City. The next day, several policemen took

Ms. Li to a remote building where they tortured her

for two days and two nights. They forced her to sit on

the "tiger bench," on which she was forced to sit

straight up with her eyes looking straight ahead. Her

hands were placed on her knees, and she was not

allowed to turn her head, close her eyes, talk to

anyone or raise her hand. She was severely beaten

whenever she moved a little bit on the bench. The

severe beating left her arms paralyzed and she could

not even eat anything for a few days.

"Iron Chair"

1. Zhang Jian, female, 54, resident of Mishan City

Ms. Zhang Jian was shackled to an "iron chair"

and sleep-deprived for 8 days and nights at the Wan-

jia Labor Camp. She was only fed several teaspoons of

corn soup twice a day, so she was always starving. She

was also handcuffed to the door in a "small cell" three

times, each time for 72 hours, and deprived of sleep.

The torture and starvation weakened her significantly,

and her whole body was infected with scabies (painful

skin disease caused by parasitic mites that burrow un-

derneath one's skin).

2. Xu Lihua, female, 54, retired employee of the

Timber Mill in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Prov-

ince

On January 24, 2001, the guards at the Wanjia

Labor Camp knocked Ms. Xu Lihua down to the floor

and beat her. Ms. Xu was dragged by her hair to a

solitary cell and locked in the "iron chair" for 8 days

with her mouth sealed with tape. On March 9, 2001,

she was sent to the solitary cell again and locked up

for 30 days. From noon of June 18 to June 20, 2001,

guard Li Min hung her up by her wrists for nearly 40

hours. Li Min shocked her with an electric baton until

her entire body became black and blue.

3. Pan Xuanhua, female, 55, resident of Harbin

City, Heilongjiang Province

On April 26, 2001, Ms. Pan Xuanhua was

beaten by 6 policemen from the Wanjia Labor Camp.

She suffered internal injuries in her chest and spat

Rings for arms

Rings for wrists

Rings for legs

Rings for feet

"Iron Chair"

Torture by Devices

"Tiger Bench"

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blood for several days. After this, she was chained to

the "iron chair" for 3 days and 2 nights. She went on a

hunger strike to protest the torture. Twelve days later,

she was locked in the iron chair for another 7 days.

Her hunger strike lasted 17 days. She was thus tor-

tured in a solitary cell for as long as 45 days.

"Water Jail" or "Water Dungeon"

Water dungeon is a grotesque torture. A victim

is stripped down to underwear or naked and locked

into a small iron

cage with spikes on

all sides. The cage is

lowered into filthy

water up to the

victim's chest or

neck. The room is

completely dark,

and the victim is

locked in the cage

for days or even

weeks, and urine

and feces are ex-

creted into the wa-

ter.

1. Mr. Xiao, male, Beijing

On December 30, 2000, Mr. Xiao was tortured

with the water dungeon in the Huairou Detention

Center in Beijing. Mr. Xiao was forced to sit down in

an uncomfortable position in the water dungeon area

beside the cell vent. He was unable to stretch or lie

down and he couldn't support his body against the

wall. Then guards began to fill dirty, cold water into

the room. Xiao's body was completely soaked. Ice-cold

water and the chilly wind pierced through his body.

2. Kang Hong, male, 30's, resident of Jiangbei Dis-

trict; Han Yiming, male, 30's, teacher of South-

west Normal University; Li Xiangdong, male,

30's, resident of Jiangbei District, Chongqing City

In 2001, Mr. Kang Hong, Mr. Han Yiming, Mr.

Li Xiangdong and another 10 Falun Gong practitio-

ners were tortured with the water dungeon at the Xis-

hanping Labor Camp of Chongqing City, Sichuan

Province. There was no light in the water dungeon at

any time, and there were even dead rats and snakes

in the cell in addition to the sewage water. The cage

was less than a person's height, and the practitioners

were handcuffed to the top of the cage. As a result,

they could neither stand straight up nor sit down. The

practitioners had to defecate and urinate in the dun-

geon. The torture lasted 7 to 15 days. When Mr. Kang

was taken out of the dungeon, his whole body was con-

torted, and the lower part of his body had festered. He

was paralyzed for the next few days.

"Di Lao" or "Hell Confinement"

The "Di Lao" device includes a pair of handcuffs

and a pair of foot-shackles, which are linked together

with crossed steel or iron chains. There are two types,

one shown in a) and the other b). The handcuff length