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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

"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

Being confined in a solitary compartment

Published on 11/23/2001 Practitioners were brutally beaten to bruises all over their bodies and pulled away. The practitioner’s life circumstances are uncertain.

Practitioners become fainted from beating and are dragged away

Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps

Published on 1/28/2002 Police instruct the prisoners to force the practitioners’ mouths open, pry their teeth apart, and force-feed them with a highly concentrated salt-water solution. Whoever experiences this will be in agony. Once they have gone through this torture, Falun Dafa practitioners will be exhausted, with wounds all over their bodies. After having their lips torn and teeth pried apart, the insides of their mouths and throats are severely injured.

Force-feeding Dafa practitioners who have gone on hunger strikes.

Published on 1/28/2002 In Chinese labor camps and detention centers, Falun Dafa practitioners are constantly subjected to cruel torture. According to practitioners who have escaped from these havens of evil, besides applying the various torture devices and jolting practitioners with electric batons, police often encourage the criminal prisoners to beat practitioners and then pour cold, dirty water over them. Police even command guard dogs to attack Falun Dafa practitioners!

Prison guards command guard dogs to attack Falun Dafa practitioners

Published on 1/28/2002 Falun Dafa practitioners who had gone on long term hunger strikes could not move their bodies after being tied on the "Dead Person’s Bed." (The practitioners’ extremities are stretched out and tied to the four posts of an icy-cold metal bed. They cannot move at all; neither are they allowed to get up to eat, drink or even to go to the toilet. This treatment can last anywhere from several hours to longer than two weeks. This cruel method of torture causes severe physical and emotional injury to the practitioner.)

"Dead Person's Bed": Tying a practitioner to four posts of a metal bed

Published on 1/28/2002 In Chinese labor camps and detention centers, Falun Dafa practitioners are constantly subjected to cruel torture. Many Falun Dafa practitioners are locked inside "water dungeons" and have to pass through many days of darkness while immersed in chest deep water.

"water dungeons": practitioners are handcufffed and immersed in chest deep water.

Police pour cold and dirty water over practitoners.

Prison guards hang and beat practitioners

Published on 1/28/2002 In Chinese labor camps and detention centers, Falun Dafa practitioners are constantly subjected to cruel torture. "Digging in Bamboo Sticks" (The police hammer sharp bamboo sticks into the fingers of the practitioner through the tips of the fingernails. In the process of the hammering, the fingernail will be completely torn off. As one’s exposed fingernail beds are extremely sensitive, the hammering process causes an excruciating pain that one cannot even begin to describe. The police begin by hammering the bamboo stick into just one finger. If the practitioner still refuses to allow his will to be bent, the police will then hammer bamboo sticks into more and more fingers until they have brutally mutilated all ten fingers.) Whoever suffers through this torture experiences unbearable physical pain, as well as deep emotional anguish.

Digging in Bamboo Sticks": The police hammer sharp bamboo sticks into the fingers of the practitioner .

Published on 1/28/2002 In Chinese labor camps and detention centers, Falun Dafa practitioners are constantly subjected to cruel torture. The the police would strip the practitioners, and then use a homemade electric shocking device to torture them. The size and shape of this shocking device is like that of a masonry brick, and it carries a much higher voltage than regular electric batons. The skin will break open and bleed in every place that receives a shock from that device.

Police strip the practitioners, and then use a homemade electric shocking device to torture them.

"Dead Person's Bed": Tying practitioners to four posts of a metal bed

Handcuffs that A Dafa Practitioner Opened with Righteous Thoughts

Published on 9/27/2002 Women Practitioners in Beijing’s Xin’an Forced Labor Camp Are Shocked and Stabbed with Electric Needles in Specially Designed Torture Chamber. The walls, ceiling and floor of this small cell were covered with some type of electrified needles. If she tilted her body even a little and touched any part of the wall, ceiling or floor, she would receive a shocked by the electric needles. When she was exhausted and sleepy due to the forced long-time sleep deprivation, she was often shocked by the electric needles lining her cell and beaten by the guards. She had needle puncture marks all over her body and her skin looked like a sieve.

Women practitioners are shocked and stabbed with electric needles in specially designed torture chamber

Published on 9/27/2002 Falun Dafa practitioner A, female, 32 years old, was kidnapped and sent to the No. 4 team in Beijing’s Xin’an Forced Labor Camp (also called the Beijing Female Forced Labor Camp) in July 2001. She has resisted the vicious persecution. For two months, she refused to wear the labor camp uniform, since she is not a criminal and did not commit any crime. She was handcuffed at all times. The camp officials locked her inside the interrogation room, and assigned four people to watch her every day. Labor camp guard Li Jirong forbade her to sleep, take a bath, wash her face and brush her teeth, or use the toilet. At each meal, she was only given a plain and tasteless steamed cornmeal bun made of only corn flour and water [no salt, sugar and oil are added] and some pieces of pickled vegetables. She was beaten every day, so her nose often spurted blood, her eyes were black and blue and swollen, and she had bruises all over her body.

Labor camp guard assigned four criminal inmates to watch and abuse a woman practitioner

Published on 9/27/2002 Falun Dafa practitioner B, female, 58 years old, comes from Beijing. After she was kidnapped and sent to Beijing’s Xin’an Forced Labor Camp in June 2001, she not only resisted the brainwashing, but also openly introduced Dafa in her class and team and clarified the true facts of the persecution. Because of this, guard Li Jirong ordered some people to beat her. One month later, she was sent to the "Extensive Training Team" and put into the dark small cell, where the electric needles were installed all over the walls, ceiling and floor.

Labor camp guards force practitioners to write repent letter and beat them

Published on 9/27/2002 Falun Dafa practitioner C, female, 48 years old, comes from Yanqing County in Beijing. She was sent to No. 4 team of the Xin’an Forced Labor Camp in April 2001. She has resisted the brainwashing. The guard Li Jirong forced her to stand at a corner of the hallway and forbade her to take a shower, wash her face, brush her teeth, or use the toilet. Li Jirong also instigated others to brutally beat her, force her to squat, kneel, or "fly".

forcing a woman practitioner to squat, kneel, or "fly"

Published on 9/27/2002 A 54-year-old woman practitioner was arrested and brought to the Xin’an Forced Labor Camp in September 2001. She resisted the brainwashing and was cruelly tortured by guards Li Ziping and Li Jirong. The guards also instigated the inmates to beat her, and did not allow her to live normally. During a morning drill, she shouted, "Falun Dafa is Good" and "Falun Dafa is a righteous way of cultivation." The guards immediately covered her mouth and brutally beat and kicked her. The guards then handcuffed her and imprisoned her inside a utility room that provides water; she was squeezed under the sink and forced to remain there. Her ankles swelled and became as thick as her thighs.

The guards cover her mouth and brutally beat and kick a woman practitioner

Published on 9/27/2002 Dafa practitioner D, female, 54 years old, was arrested and brought to the Xin’an Forced Labor Camp in September 2001. She resisted the brainwashing and was cruelly tortured by guards Li Ziping and Li Jirong. The guards also instigated the inmates to beat her, and did not allow her to live normally. During a morning drill, she shouted, "Falun Dafa is Good" and "Falun Dafa is a righteous way of cultivation." The guards immediately covered her mouth and brutally beat and kicked her. The guards then handcuffed her and imprisoned her inside a utility room that provides water; she was squeezed under the sink and forced to remain there. Her ankles swelled and became as thick as her thighs.

A woman practitioner resists brainwashing and shouted "Falun Dafa is great!"

Published on 10/9/2002 Torture and Persecution Methods Employed in the Beijing Detention Center, the Dispatching Center and the Xin’an Female Forced Labor Camp. The practitioner was forced to put down fingerprint on guarantee statement to renounce her belief, while a prison guard beats her with electric baton.

Beating practitioners and shocking them with electric batons

Forcing practitioners to run barefooted outside in winter

practitioners are stripped and drenched with cold water

Tying a practitioner on a chair and pouring water onto her during winter

Forcing practitioners to squat for extended time in a fixed position

Published on 3/22/2003 At the Tiananmen police station, police beat a practitioner in the face with the piece of iron shown in the picture, to such a point that both his cheeks turned blue and his eyes black. His eyes swelled into the shape of a thin line, and he could no longer open his mouth.

Police beats the face of a practitioner with the piece of iron

Published on 5/29/2003 Drawings: Three Typical Methods Used to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners. An artist who practices Falun Gong uses his drawings to show how police officers in China’s prisons and labor camps ruthlessly torture Falun Gong practitioners. The picture depicts the police beating a practitioner to loss of consciousness and pulling him away.

Police beat a practitioner to faint and pulled him away

Published on 5/29/2003 An artist who practices Falun Gong uses his drawings to show how police officers in China’s prisons and labor camps ruthlessly torture Falun Gong practitioners. The pictures depict the police beating and shocking practitioners with electric batons.

Police brutally beats and shocks a practitioner with electric baton

Police shocks a practitioner with electric baton

Published on 6/4/2003 Dr. Charles Li, a U.S. citizen and practitioner of Falun Gong, was on hunger strike,and was beaten and force-fed in a hospital inside the Nanjing Prison.

U.S. citizen Charles Li was beaten and force-fed in Nanjing prison

Published on 10/3/2003 Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp uses cable spindles as instruments of torture.This cable spindle’s diameter is 20 centimeters, and it is 30 centimeters high. The top has many small grooves.Even if they wear padded cotton pants, after three or four days of sitting on the spindle, their bottoms become bruised and lacerated. They then have difficulty walking.

Cable spindles are used as instruments of torture and called "sitting on a little stool."

Schematic drawing of Wangcun Labor Camp

Published on 12/19/2003 Head of the Jilin Jail Attempts To Brainwash Dafa Practitioners Using the Cruel "Fixed-Bed" Torture (Illustration). The "Fixed-Bed" torture is conducted in 3 steps:

Step 1: Person’s four limbs are bound to the 4 corners of the hard bed;

Step 2: Once limbs are bound to the bed, the body is lifted high in the air and is stretched in all four directions, causing severe pain;

Step 3: After the body is lifted and stretched, a rolled up quilt is forced under the body to hold the stretching position. The body is then continuously stretched in four directions and then the body is pressed down to cause the maximum pain.

The "Fixed-Bed" torture used in Jilin prison to force practitioners to give up their belief

Published on 12/29/2003 The Criminal Record of the Public Security Division Head of Weifang City Development District, Shandong Province. Ming Zhongliang (male, in his 50’s)urged his police to break into Dafa practitioners’ homes by climbing over the walls, prying the doors open and breaking the locks. Then they abducted three female Dafa practitioners separately, taking them to the Weifang Industrial Officials’ School for attempted brainwashing. At these homes the police left four rubber-covered police batons and one steel rod, and these implements became the evidence of their persecution against Dafa practitioners.

The criminal implements the police left at the scene -- four rubber-covered police batons and one steel rod.

Published on 1/4/2004 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps, Part 1. In forced labor camps, prison guards use electric batons to torture practitioners to force them to give their belief.

Prison guards torture Falun Gong practitioners with electric batons

Published on 1/17/2004 Jinzhou District Dentention center used many crude torture methods to torment practitioners. One of them, which is called "running," consisted of a square metal frame about 1 x 1 foot in dimension, with 4 handcuffs made of heavy steel at the four corners. Two are used to shackle the hands and the other two are for the feet. If one of the handcuffs moves, it will twist or pinch a practitioner’s wrists and ankles, causing extreme pain. The practitioners had to bend over by almost 90 degrees when walking, with the hips up and face down. They were only able to look at the ground right in front of their feet. Every step taken was only about 3 inches at a time with their flesh twisted and it was very painful. (See illustration)

Torture instrument used to inflict maximum pain to practitioners

Published on 2/23/2004 Police in Zhuhai Brainwashing Session, Guangzhou torture practitioners by tying their whole body tightly. Both hands of a practitioner are tightly tied from behind and moved up. Police force the practitioner to sit cross-legged and bend forward, then tie his whole body around and hang him up with a rope connecting to his hands.

Police torture practitioners by tying them tightly

Published on 4/25/2004 Dalian City’s Jinzhou District Detention Center Beats Practitioners with Metal Studded Belts to Torture Them. The "leather board" consists of a wide rubber belt with a handle, as well as several rows of large, shiny metal studs.

Beating Practitioners with Metal Studded Belts

$Published on 5/21/2004 This is another very cruel torture commonly used by forced labor camps and brainwashing classes on Falun Dafa practitioners who refuse to give up their belief. First, the practitioner’s legs and feet are tied tightly together, with the arms and hands tied behind the back. Then the practitioner’s neck and legs are tied together very tightly, almost causing suffocation. The whole body is then pushed under the bed (see illustration), and several people sit on top of the bed, forcibly pressing down on the practitioner’s back, almost causing the spine to fracture. This torture often results in severe injuries.$