TORTURE Archives - FalunInfo

Used for decades by Chinese Communist Party police to extort confessions from suspects and targets of political campaigns, torture is now being used against Falun Gong practitioners to force them to renounce their faith. Both physical and mental torture techniques are used. The way mental and physical torture are combined can be seen in the brief excerpt below from the Washington Post, which describes the typical ordeal countless Falun Gong adherents have faced: Human rights workers have compiled over 100 methods of corporal torture used against Falun Gong practitioners. Below are a few examples of such methods. BEATINGS Falun Gong practitioners in police custody are often brutally beaten, sometimes to death. Items used for beatings in documented cases have included wooden clubs, steel and iron bars, iron rods, bamboo sticks, rubber sticks, electric batons, wooden planks, steel-wire locks, rattan, and whips made of twisted copper wire, electric wire, or rope. PIERCING Sensitive body parts such as women’s breasts are often pierced with sharp wires. Fingertips are pierced with pins and bamboo nails, which are also hammered under the fingernails. In many cases, torturers pull the practitioners’ fingernails out by the root. The prevalence of this torture method and its use against Falun Gong practitioners was referenced in the Hollywood blockbuster film Syriana starring George Clooney. FORCE-FEEDING Force-feeding is a torture method often used on Falun Gong, and it has been the cause of death in approximately 10 percent of all known death cases. Force-feeding is most often carried out by labor camp staff with no medical training, or by criminal inmates who are coerced to do so. Unsanitary rubber tubes are shoved into a practitioner’s nose and down into the stomach, often rupturing or damaging tissue. Sometimes the tube enters the lungs. Detainees are often fed irritants such as highly concentrated salt water, hot pepper oil, boiling water, detergent, or even human feces. A Rare Case of Escape | Refusing to sign documents renouncing Falun Gong while in Chinese labor camp, the guards there were burning mr. Tan Yongjie, with hot iron, a total of thirteen times. They then left him for dead due to his severe injuries. Mr. Tan was able to escape from China and arrive in Houston by way of Hong Kong and California. Photo is from a Houston hospital, 2001. SCORCHING WITH HOT IRONS Hundreds of practitioners have reported being burned with cigarettes, lighters, fire, irons, or hot iron bars. ‘THE WATER DUNGEON’ In “water dungeons,” the detainee spends many days in total darkness while inside a small cage and immersed in chest-deep water. Often the water is from sewage lines. Some detainees have died under such conditions, while others have been driven insane from this torture. Caption Goes Here. HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC-SHOCK BATONS Electric batons carrying high voltages are used to shock practitioners’ sensitive areas and private parts such as the inside of the mouth, top of the head, breasts, genitals, buttocks, and thighs. Several electric batons are often used simultaneously on different parts of the body. Victims have said that the smell of burning flesh permeates the air during the torture. Guards shocked Ms. Gao Rongrong on the face with electric batons for over 7 hours. Ms. Gao was confined to a heavily guarded hospital ward for almost five months. She died of subsequent torture on June 16, 2005. She was 37. PSYCHIATRIC TORTURE Tens of thousands of practitioners have been subjected to psychiatric torture, with over 7,000 documented cases directly involving Chinese mental hospitals. In the CCP’s psychiatric wards as well as other detention facilities like labor camps and prisons, Falun Gong detainees are injected with toxic doses of unknown psychotropic drugs. Some have suffered severe damage to their central nervous system from the injections, while others became deranged after being “treated” there.

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