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Published on 8/16/2004 A Practitioner in China Demonstrates Some of the Tortures Frequently Used on Practitioners in Detention. The torturers at the forced labor camps often bind detained Falun Gong practitioners to a ladder, forcing them to "sit parallel on the ladder" for extended periods of time. Not having access to a ladder, we demonstrated the torture using a board instead. The perpetrators seal practitioners’ mouths with tape to muffle their agonizing cries. They also bind practitioners’ hands behind their backs and use the tape to force their heads forward with their chins against their chests.

The ladder used in the actual torture is the type of metal ladder commonly used on the bunk beds found in prisons, labor camps and detention centers in China.

Forcing Practitioners to "Sit Parallel to a Ladder" for Extended Periods

Published on 8/16/2004 A Practitioner in China Demonstrates Some of the Tortures Frequently Used on Practitioners in Detention. The torturers at the forced labor camps often bind detained Falun Gong practitioners to a ladder, forcing them to "sit parallel on the ladder" for extended periods of time. Not having access to a ladder, we demonstrated the torture using a board instead. The perpetrators seal practitioners’ mouths with tape to muffle their agonizing cries. They also bind practitioners’ hands behind their backs and use the tape to force their heads forward with their chins against their chests.

The ladder used in the actual torture is the type of metal ladder commonly used on the bunk beds found in prisons, labor camps and detention centers in China.

Forcing Practitioners to "Sit Parallel to a Ladder" for Extended Periods

Published on 8/16/2004 A Practitioner in China Demonstrates Some of the Tortures Frequently Used on Practitioners in Detention. The torturers at the forced labor camps often bind detained Falun Gong practitioners to a ladder, forcing them to "sit parallel on the ladder" for extended periods of time. Not having access to a ladder, we demonstrated the torture using a board instead. The perpetrators seal practitioners’ mouths with tape to muffle their agonizing cries. They also bind practitioners’ hands behind their backs and use the tape to force their heads forward with their chins against their chests.

The ladder used in the actual torture is the type of metal ladder commonly used on the bunk beds found in prisons, labor camps and detention centers in China.

Tying practitioners on a ladder for extended periods of time

Published on 8/16/2004 A Practitioner in China Demonstrates Some of the Tortures Frequently Used on Practitioners in Detention. The torturers force practitioners’ upper bodies and feet even closer to the wall with brutal force. When the toes almost touch the bottom of the wall, one naturally wants to bend his knees to avoid injury to the tendons and the waist. But the torturers pull practitioners’ knees away from the wall using towels in order to force their knees to straighten up. Whenever practitioners’ arms give out, the torturers pull their arms back into the raised position, forcing them back into the agonizing posture.

"Flying the Airplane"

Published on 8/16/2004 A Practitioner in China Demonstrates Some of the Tortures Frequently Used on Practitioners in Detention. The toothbrushes used in the actual tortures have much flatter handles than the ones in the photographs. The torturers would insert a toothbrush with a flat handle between two fingers of the victim. One collaborator makes sure that the tortured practitioner’s fingers clench the toothbrush firmly while another collaborator uses both hands to keep rotating the toothbrush until all the flesh in contact with the toothbrush is worn off the fingers and the finger bones are exposed.

Grinding Fingers with a Toothbrush

Published on 8/16/2004 A Practitioner in China Demonstrates Some of the Tortures Frequently Used on Practitioners in Detention. The toothbrushes used in the actual tortures have much flatter handles than the ones in the photographs. The torturers would insert a toothbrush with a flat handle between two fingers of the victim. One collaborator makes sure that the tortured practitioner’s fingers clench the toothbrush firmly while another collaborator uses both hands to keep rotating the toothbrush until all the flesh in contact with the toothbrush is worn off the fingers and the finger bones are exposed.

Grinding Fingers with a Toothbrush

Published on 8/23/2004 A Victim of Torture in China Exposes the Darkness of a Forced Labor Camp. The abusers on both sides pressed my shoulders downwards, as the person behind pulled my head upwards; the one in front grabbed me by my neck; while two of them held my legs on each side and someone held my feet to make sure I couldn’t move; others from behind raised my arms high above me. At that moment I felt as if the joints of my arms, wrists and ankles were all being broken. Later, my arms and legs went completely numb.

"Pulling Up a Radish": a torture method

Published on 8/26/2004 Police in Pinggu Jail, Beijing forcefully hold an elder practitioner’s neck with a piece of wood to take photos. One policeman on each side to hold the practitioner’s arm. Another policeman forcefully place a piece of wood in T form under the neck of the practitioner.

Police forcefully hold the neck of an elder practitioner with a piece of wood to take photos