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Published on 11/23/2001 Practitioners are tied up and beaten with electric batons, rubber tubes, and "wolf teeth" sticks. The insults and beatings given to female practitioners are often even more brutal.

Tied Up and Beaten with Tools

Published on 11/23/2001 Practitioners who are on hunger strike are tied to the "Dead Person’s Bed" so that their hands and feet can’t move, and they are brutally force-fed through the nose. Many practitioners have lost their lives from this torture.

Force Feeding on Dead Person's Bed

Published on 11/23/2001 Practitioner is fixed to a chair with the bead bent back, the nose pinched, and the teeth pried apart so that food is forced into the body through inhalation.

Brutal Forced Feeding

Published on 11/23/2001 Illustrations of Torture Methods Used in Chinese Detention Centers and Forced Labor Camps. The foot shackle is combined with handcuffs. One hand is handcuffed to the other hand between two legs. The shackle weighs over 20 pounds. The policemen torture determined practitioners this way for a long time. The practitioners who are tortured this way cannot go to sleep, walk, stand, use the bathroom, or eat a meal. They have to walk in a half-squatting and bowing position.

Combining shackle with handcuffs to make the practitioners hard to move

Published on 11/23/2001 With both arms tightly tied behind the back, both feet off the ground or only the toes barely touching the ground, one is hung from a high place with rope. When the rope is tightly fastened, the rope will cut into one’s flesh, which is extremely painful.

Tying the Ropes

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

Handcuffed Behind the Back

Published on 11/23/2001 Practitioner is locked in a cage shorter than a person’s height and of a width and length that make it difficult for a person to stand straight nor lie down. Except for a small barred door, all openings are tightly sealed. No light comes in. Sometimes they are locked up this way for 120 days.

Confined in Solitary Compartment

Published on 11/23/2001 After being beaten until unconscious, practitioners were dragged away by the feet, displaying horrifying wounds and injuries from the beating to onlookers.

Dragging Unconscious Practitioners by the Feet after Vicious Beating

Published on 1/28/2002 According to those who have escaped from Chinese labor camps and detention centers prison guards have commanded guard dogs to attack Falun Dafa practitioners!

Attack by Prison Guard Dogs

Published on 1/28/2002 Practitioners who have already been beaten are further tortured with a hand-crafted shocking device.

Specially Rigged Shocking Device Used on Open Wounds

Published on 1/28/2002 Guards use plastic bags to suffocate Falun Dafa practitioners in forced labor camps.

Suffocating Practitioners with a Plastic Bag

Published on 10/9/2002 In the winter, Falun Dafa practitioners are stripped and drenched with cold water, or tied to a chair next to a cold air vent, and splashed with icy water.

Freezing with Water

Published on 5/21/2004 Practitioner’s legs and feet are first 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 and several people sit it.

Bound and Pressed under Bed

Published on 5/21/2004 Practitioner is hung upside down by his feet, causing his blood to flow to his head. After a long time, it can result in loss of consciousness or even death.

Hanging Upside Down for Extended Periods

Published on 6/7/2004 Long sharp bammboo sticks are inserted under the fingernails.

Bamboo under Fingernails

Published on 6/7/2004 Several prison guards and criminals tied my hands and feet and forced me down on a board. Then they inserted the tube into my month, and held my mouth open by using a steel expander in order to pour in a corn gruel. They placed the container over six feet high to create the pressure necessary for the feeding. Steadfast Falun Gong practitioners were force-fed with concentrated salt, irritating chemicals and hot chili pepper mixed with water.

Brutal Forced Feeding

Published on 6/7/2004 Practitioner is suspended in the air and beaten for long periods of time.

Hung up and Beaten

Published on 6/7/2004 One practitioner is suspended in the air for long periods of time and the other’s head is forcefully immersed in a chamber pot.

Hung Up or Dunked in Chamber Pot

Published on 6/7/2004 Practitioner is burned with lit cigarette and hot iron.

Burning

Published on 6/7/2004 Practitioner is forced to sit on the "Tiger Bench" and his knees are forcefully pressed down while his feet are elevated on several bricks.

Tiger Bench with Bricks

Published on 6/7/2004 With several men standing on a board, heavy pressure is applied to the lower abdomen of young women practitioners.

Crushing the Abdomen of Young Women

Published on 6/7/2004 Two assailants force the legs apart while two others physically assault the practitioner.

Sexual Assault

Published on 6/7/2004 Practitioner is forced to walk around outside in the wind and snow without shoes or any warm clothes.

Hypothermia and Humiliation

Published on 6/7/2004 After being tortured to the point of passing out, practitioners are revived by pouring cold water on them.

Dousing with Cold Water

Published on 6/8/2004 In this torture method, practitioners are dragged away at night and thrown into a pit dug by guards. While blinded by a flashlight and shocked with electric batons, the victim is buried up to his chest.

Buried Alive

Published on 6/10/2004 This painful torture method involves handcuffing the practitioner’s hands to a bed frame and and swinging him or her back and forth by ropes tied to his feet.

Swinging from a Bed

Published on 6/10/2004 Practitioners fingers are squeezed or pounded with ard objects inserted between the fingers causing injury to the ligaments, which was extremely painful and crippling.

Injuring Fingers with Hard Objects

Published on 6/16/2004 Labor camp guards tie practitioners to the back of a vehicle, then drag him at high speeds, resulting in tragically deep, bloody flesh wounds that sometimes expose the bones.

Practitioners Dragged behind a Speeding Vehicle

Water Dungeon

Published on 6/17/2004 Police of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province fastened over 100 push pins on practitioners’ bodies.

Body Tacked with Push Pins

Published on 6/17/2004 One policeman, or a group of policemen, rape women practitioners.

Rape or Gang Rape of Female Practitioners

Published on 6/30/2004 Death Frame is a rectangular metal frame with a thick metal cuff at each corner used to secure the victim’s hands and feet, forcing him or her to bend in a painful position, unable to straighten the body or sit down.

Torture Device: Death Frame

Published on 7/18/2004 Several guards gang up to beat elderly practitioner.

Merciless Beating

Published on 7/18/2004 Practitioner is locked in a cage and emersed in a pool of dirty water up to his or her neck.

Water Dungeon

Published on 7/18/2004 Falun Gong practitioners on hunger strike are force fed in a brutal and dangerous manner.

Brutal Forced Feeding

Published on 8/23/2004 This painful torture method requires several assailants, who press the shoulders down, pull the head and arms up from behind, and hold the feet, legs and neck firmly to prevent him or her from moving.

Pulling up a Radish

Published on 8/25/2004 Several practitioners are lined up and pushed together tightly, with the first person’s legs together against a wall, and the last person’s legs spread wide apart, for six to eight hours.

Sitting in a Line

Published on 8/25/2004 The body is bent forward with the head hanging downward, the legs spread apart, and the arms are pulled up from behind.

Bent-Up

Published on 9/2/2004 Demonstration of Torture Methods Used on Falun Gong Practitioners in Shenyang City’s Longshan Forced Labor Camp (Photos). Torture Method: Brutal Force-Feeding. At the end of June 2001 in the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp, practitioners Wang Hong and Zhang Lirong were savagely force-fed. (Longshan Forced Labor Camp was the party behind the persecution). Several police fixed Falun Gong practitioner on a chair with the head bent backward, the nose pinched and teeth pried apart with a metal spoon. Then, half of a piece of crumbled cornbread was put into a soda drink bottle, with the addition of salted water. Since the nose was pinched, the practitioner could only breathe through the mouth. Food was fed with each inhalation of a breath. Sometimes, they choked on the mixture and it went everywhere. The practitioners who suffered from force-feeding said afterwards, "I don’t know what they put into my body. The only sensation was bitter and salty." This kind of painful torture happened three times a day.

Brutal force-feeding in Shenyang Longshan Labor Camp

Published on 9/2/2004 Several guards pushed the practitioner to squatting position, with the head forced between the legs until the ittouched the ground and the upper back leaned against wall. The practitioner was fixed in this position for several hours.

Bent Immobile in a Corner

Published on 9/2/2004 Prison staff made the practitioner sit on a high, narrow bar with is burnt buttocks hanging over the bar, his shackled feet suspended, and his burnt feet bleeding.

Injured Practitioner Forced to Sit on Bar

Published on 9/2/2004 Prison guards hung Liao Yuanhua up by his handuffed hands and feet, "suspending him like a swing." This made his wrists and ankles bleed.

Suspended by Handcuffs like a Swing

Published on 9/2/2004 Severely burned practitioner was handcuffed to a bed, his legs were shackled, and he was forced to watch a video slandering Falun Gong.

Stripped, Handcuffed, Shackled and Forced to Watch Slanderous Video

Published on 9/11/2004 Torture posture which requires a person to stand on one leg while lifting the other. The upper body is held against the wall, as are the two arms that slant to the side to cause an imbalance of the body, yet the upper body must be kept straight.

Gecko Crawling the Wall

Published on 9/11/2004 This posture requires that one’s head points downward, the back of the neck is against the wall, and the arms are raised with the hands touching the wall. Most people feel that their head will explode and cannot tolerate it for even ten minutes.

Riding an Airplane

Facing the Wall

$Published on 9/11/2004 The two arms are handcuffed together at the back, one from above and the other from below. Since it is difficult to handcuff the arms like this, police often put the arms together suddenly and forcefully, which can easily cause bone fractures.$

Handcuffed Behind the Back

Published on 9/13/2004 The practitioner’s hands are tied behind his back with a nylon rope connected to a rope around his neck. With lbows twisted, shoulders pressed down, and wrists lifted up, the ropes are tightened with hard objects inserted to increase pain.

Tying the Ropes

Published on 9/13/2004 A guard rubs female practitioner on the face and the mouth with police batons, insults her by putting his legs on her shoulders and pulling her forward and beats practitioners on the face and hands with an electric baton.

Physical Abuse and Humiliation

Published on 9/13/2004 The perpetrators purposely force-feed practitioners hard liquor, knowing that Falun Gong practitioners absolutely will not drink alcohol.

Force-feeding with Alcohol

Published on 9/13/2004 A male policeman rides on a female Falun Gong practitioner.

Assault and Humiliation

Published on 9/16/2004 With his hands tied behind his back, the practitioner is shocked by several electric batons simultaneously.

Shocking with Several Electric Batons

Published on 9/16/2004 Shocking a practitioner by inserting an electric baton into his mouth.

Electric Baton in the Mouth

Published on 9/16/2004 Assailants stab the soles of the practitioner’s feet and shock his body with an electric baton.

Stabbing the Soles of the Feet

Published on 9/17/2004 This torture method was used on deceased practitioner Zuo Guoqing. The practitioner was tied with a rope and if he cried out in pain, the guards covered his mouth with tape, put on shackles beat him brutally, and stomped on his feet.

Rope Tying and Stomping

Published on 9/17/2004 Guards torture practitioners by tying them with rope. If anyone cried out in pain, they covered his mouth with tape, put shackles on him and beat him brutally, sometimes causing serious injury.

Rope Tying and Stomping

Published on 9/18/2004 Guards handcuffed the practitioner to a high metal bar, then pulled his legs apart and tied them to a bed frame. After he lost all feeling in his arms, they tied a heavy iron weight around his neck and further tortured him.

Suspended by Handcuffs

Published on 9/18/2004 Prison guards insert needles connected by wires to an electric baton into the victim’s acupuncture points or other sensitive areas. At high voltages, the victim is jolted into the air causing the entire body to convulse. Those with heart problems often died.

Electrified Needles

Published on 9/18/2004 A metal bucket is places over the practitioner’s head, and several police officers strick the bucket with wooden clubs, causing deafening noise and vibrations. After being tortured like this several times, the practitioner often suffered spasms over his entire body during sleep.

Striking a Metal Bucket Placed over the Head

Published on 9/20/2004 Masajia Labor Camp, Shenyang, Liaoning Province tortures practitioners. Prison guards covered mouths of practitioners Xie Xiulan and Shi Shengying and taped.

Covering mouth with dirty cloth and taping face

Published on 9/23/2004 Guards hung practitioners from an elevated structure with iron chain and rope. All the practitioners’ body weight was supported by their wrists.

Hung Up with Chain or Rope

Published on 9/24/2004 This practitioner was locked to a steel frame, and a wooden stick was used to pry his teeth apart. Several people held him down while they injected concentrated salt water into his stomach through a thick tube.

Force Fed Concentrated Salt Water while Locked to a Steel Frame

Published on 9/24/2004 Criminals were coerced to strip practitioners naked, shave their heads, lock them to steel chairs, and spray water into their mouths with high pressure hoses.

Spraying High Pressure Water into Practitioners' Mouths

Published on 9/24/2004 Two lit cigarettes are inserted into the practitioner’s nostrils and his mouth is covered, to suffocate him. The suffocation and choking is very painful.

Choking with Smoke

Published on 9/25/2004 Prison guards tie a practitioner to a "dead person’s bed" and hold his head while others brutally insert big rubber tubes into his mouth and force-feed him with a highly concentrated salt solution. Some intentionally move the tube back and forth in his stomach, making the practitioner nauseous, vomit, choke and yell in agony. When the tubing is withdrawn from his body, bloody liquid, food and viscous stuff from stomach come with it.

Brutal Forced Feeding with Concentrated Salt Water

Published on 9/25/2004 Prison guards force a practitioner to sit on a metal chair and handcuff his hands and feet. They insert the end of a stick into his mouth and agitate it forcefully to cause pain and injury, then apply concentrated salt solution to his mouth.

Agitating the Mouth with a Stick

Published on 9/25/2004 Prison guards force a practitioner to sit on a metal chair and handcuff his hands and feet, then put a wooden stick wrapped with a towel to his mouth and tighten it to his neck with ropes.

Reining with a Stick in the Mouth

Published on 9/30/2004 In this brutal torture method, a rough rubber tube is forcefully inserted through the nose, sometimes causing death by suffocation or forcing food into the lungs.

Brutal Forced Feeding

Published on 10/1/2004 Four prisoners stripped the practitioner,taped up his hands and feet, placed him in a full water basin with only his head above water, then dunked his head in the water for several minutes, until he was forced to accept brainwashing.

Submerged and Dunked in Cold Water with Bound Hands and Feet

Published on 10/1/2004 Four prisoners stripped the practitioner and forced him to the bathroom, where they taped up his hands and feet and put him into a water basin, with only his head above water, then sprayed water into his nose and mouth for more than ten minutes.

Pressed into Water Basin with Bound Hands and Feet

Published on 10/1/2004 Four prisoners stripped the practitioner, taped up his hands and feet, soaked him in a full water basin with only his head above water, then dunked his head in the water for several minutes, until he was forced to accept brainwashing.

Submerged and Dunked in Cold Water with Bound Hands and Feet

Published on 10/1/2004 Four prisoners stripped the practitioner and carried him to the bathroom, where they pressed his head into water for several minutes in order to force him to accept brainwashing.

Dunking Practitioner's Head in Cold Water

Published on 10/1/2004 Four prisoners stripped the practitioner and carried him to the bathroom, where they held him upside down and lowered him headfirst into water for several minutes in order to make him accept brainwashing.

Dunking Stripped Practitioner Upside Down

Published on 10/1/2004 Triangle belts used to beat practitioners easily inflict open wounds.

Beating with Triangular Belts

Published on 10/1/2004 The practitioner’s hands are shackled to an upper bunk, then one foot is hung up so the other foot barely touches the ground. Some practitioners endured this painful position for 15 days.

Half Flying

Published on 10/14/2004 Two prisoners press the practitioner on the floor and secure his feet. Then they pull his arms up and bend them backwards The practitioner can hardly breathe and his arms feel as if they are breaking off.

Breaking Off

Published on 10/14/2004 Practitioner is tied with strong ropes in the shape of a ball, bent at the waist, and hung from the wrists for 20 minutes to over an hour.

Tied in the Shape of a Ball and Hung from the Wrists

Published on 10/15/2004 Assailants stand on the practitioners’ legs, stomping on them with force, while violently beating and kicking him.

Stomping and Beating

Published on 10/15/2004 Guards beat the practitioner with a bamboo baton until the baton is broken. They then use a new bamboo baton to continue the beating.

Beating with a Bamboo Baton

Published on 10/27/2004 Several nurses from Shuangyang Hospital tied Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Xiangfen to a bed and injected her with harmful drugs.

Injection with Harmful Drugs

Published on 10/28/2004 Perpetrators shock practitioners with electric batons, kick their faces with leather boots, and flogged them with hard rubber hoses.

Simultaneous Shocking and Beating

Published on 10/28/2004 In October 2000, Chen Longshan, a deputy from the Yuhezhen Township government scalded a practitioner with boiling water.

Scalding with Boiling Water

Published on 10/28/2004 On September 14, 2000, seven or eight deputies of the Yuhezhen Township government, including Wang Xinmin, Zhu Yongsheng, and Chen Yonghua, took turns beating practitioner Xuan Chengxi to death while his hands were cuffed behind his back.

Beaten to Death while Handcuffed from behind

$Published on 11/5/2004 Guards used the "small white dragon" (a white plastic tube about one inch in diameter and about 8 inches long) to drill into practitioner Huang Yuedong’s armpits and on the inner sides of his thighs. Four fist-sized holes were dug out and a rib was fractured. They also twisted the plastic tube until they had made two holes in his chest. Each hole was about an inch in diameter. They then put salt in the holes and brushed them with a toothbrush. They also inserted electric batons into the holes and shocked him.$