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Published on 9/17/1999 The torture tool under earth jail is used for prisoners sentensed to death. At 10 am on September 4, Ms. Sun Lanfang was put on the torture tool called under earth jail for her practicing in cell.

The torture tool under earth jail makes one unable to stand up or lie down.

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps. "Backing up an airplane:" Criminal cell leaders often use this persecution and torture method on practitioners on the instigation of policemen and jail guards. This torture requires practitioners to bend over while holding the legs straight. Then, with the feet close together, the arms are lifted to the highest position possible, with the hands touching the wall. If practitioners can’t bear it, the prisoners in the cells and designated torturers will gang up to beat them.

"Backing up an airplane" for extended time

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps. The prison guards often uses this method to beat and torture practitioners, and force them to give up their beliefs. Vicious people use electric batons, rubber tubes, and "wolf teeth" sticks to beat practitioners. The insults and beatings given to female practitioners are often even more brutal.

Handcuffing practitioners to cell bars and beat them

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps. "Tiger Bench" is also one of the torture methods used on practitioners. Practitioners’ knees are tightly tied on a "Tiger Bench" [a small iron bench]. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the practitioner’s lower legs or ankles to make it harder for them to tolerate this abuse.

"Tiger Bench"

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps. "Dead Person’s Bed" or "Big Letter Board:" This torture method is what I myself have witnessed. It is used to torture practitioners who are on a hunger strike to protest and who do not yield to any unreasonable demands. Practitioners who are on hunger strike are tied to the "Dead Person’s Bed" so that their hands and feet can’t move. Jail guards and prisoners force-feed them using the " feeding through the nose" method. Many practitioners have lost their lives from this torture.

"Dead Person's Bed" or "Big Letter Board:"

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps."Sitting on the Triangle Iron Board:" This torture method has been described by practitioners who walked out of the evil places like detention centers and forced labor camps. After sitting on the iron board, practitioners’ hips bleed and fester endlessly.

Sitting on the triangle iron board

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps.Several electric batons of high voltage are often used to shock practitioners’ sensitive and private places.

Shocking a practitioner with electric baton

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps. The torture makes practitioner unable to go to sleep, walk, stand, use the bathroom, or eat a meal. They have to walk in a half-squatting and bowing position.

The foot shackle combined with handcuffs weighs over 20 pounds

Published on 11/23/2001 In order to prevent practitioners from doing exercises or whenever practitioners do not obey the unreasonable requests of the guards, the policemen in the detention centers and forced labor camps apply this inhumane torture to persecute practitioners. Usually, this position causes extreme pain in just 20 minutes. However, the policemen handcuff practitioners this way for as long as 4 hours.

"Carrying a Sword on the Back": Two hands are handcuffed on back with one hand over the shoulder.

Published on 11/23/2001 "Tying the Ropes" is another inhumane torture method applied to practitioners during interrogation and during the persecution of determined practitioners in forced labor camps, detention centers and police departments of Jiang Zemin’s criminal regime.When the rope is tightly fastened, the rope will cut into one’s flesh, which is extremely painful.

Tying the ropes and hanging up

Published on 11/23/2001 In order to prevent practitioners from doing the exercises, the police handcuff practitioners behind their backs for a long time. Practitioners handcuffed in this way cannot use the bathroom, eat or sleep.

Handcuffing from behind and shackling

Published on 11/23/2001 "Being confined in a solitary compartment" is one of the torture methods applied to brutally persecute practitioners.Except for a small barred door, all openings are tightly sealed. No light comes in. Practitioners are locked up in these small cells like that because they are determined to tell the truth and do not yield to the unreasonable requirements. Sometimes they are locked up this way for 120 days. They are mentally and physically tortured.

Being confined in a solitary compartment