Reenactment of Torture Methods at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp - Part 5

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Torture Method 13: Electric shock

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The practitioner is forced to sit on the cement floor barefooted, and guards Wang Naimin, Zhang Xiurong, Wang Shuhong, and Huang Haiyan shock the practitioner's soles, arms, legs, back, face and other sensitive body parts. In early April 2000, the four aforementioned guards and inmate Rao Aijing, who is a drug addict, yanked practitioner Ms. Zou Guirong's hair and forced her to stand on the floor while they took turns shocking her with four electric batons. She was wearing only a tank top. The guards laughed hysterically as they shocked her, saying, "This is fun! [She is] funnier than a monkey in the zoo." Practitioner Ms. Li Suyun was shocked on the chest where the heart is located with eight electric batons, each capable of releasing 300,000 volts of electricity. Smoke rose from her body and the smell of roasted flesh could be detected outside the building.

Torture Method 14: Sitting on a Metal Chair in a Solitary Confinement Cell

The metal chair is made of several pieces of welded metal. There are two types of metal chairs at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, the circular chair and the one with a metal plank across the top. Photos 57 and 58 show the circular chair, photo 59 shows the plank chair. The chairs in the pictures are approximate model reproductions made by practitioners. The actual metal chairs used at the labour camp are much thicker and heavier than the ones shown. It takes several people to move a chair. Practitioners who refuse to "reform¹" and refuse to cooperate with the torture are affixed to the metal chairs long-term. The practitioner sits in the chair with his hands, feet and back restrained by handcuffs, metal rings, and the metal plank. After several hours his hands, thighs and feet swell up. The guards often shock the practitioners with electric batons or directly hit them.

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Overall, this torture consists of forcing the practitioner to sit in the metal chair inside a solitary confinement cell. The practitioner's arms and feet are held in place by the metal rings, and several guards shock the practitioner's neck, chin, face, stomach and other sensitive body parts repeatedly with electric batons. If the practitioner refuses to reform or to write a guarantee statement², this torture continues without a break. The practitioner's body is covered in char-black wounds and his clothes often stick to his skin. The victim is in extreme agony and yet he cannot move. Some practitioners' hair becomes messy and they slowly become mentally disordered. Some practitioners have ulcerated and dead flesh on their buttocks after sitting in one position for a long time. Blood and pus seep from underneath them and their pants are glued to their bodies by the fluid. They are therefore forced to cut the trousers open with scissors. The victim is allowed to use the toilet only twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. Sometimes the victim cannot wait and is forced to relieve himself in his trousers. The guards often restrain practitioners in metal chairs for one week, or more than ten days at a time. Some practitioners lose function in their arms or cannot walk when they are released from the chair. Some practitioners cannot move at all and have to be carried out on a stretcher.

Torture Method 15: Sitting on a Metal Chair in a Sardine Can

The "sardine can" is the solitary confinement cell with four-inch-thick sponge covering all four walls. It's hard to breathe inside, especially in the summer, because no breeze can enter the room. The practitioner feels he is suffocating. Many Falun Gong practitioners held in the sardine can cannot endure the heat and lack of oxygen, and they try to peel the sponge off the walls. As a result, many holes are left on the walls, reminders of the anguish and desperate struggle of those who made them. The guards often put a metal chair in the sardine can and force the practitioner to sit in it without moving and without sleeping. Dafa-slandering propaganda is constantly broadcast through a loudspeaker. If the practitioner passes out from the heat or if he grows a little drowsy, the guards pour a basin of cold water over him. The practitioner is startled, revives, and continues to suffer.

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Torture Method 16: Force-feeding

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This is the basest and most completely inhumane tactic that the guards use to torture practitioners on hunger strikes. The guards insert a stomach pump tube as thick as an index finger down the throat and into the practitioner's stomach. They do not feed the practitioner but instead they pull out and insert the tube repeatedly to inflict the most pain. On April 5th, 2006, division head Li Wangyu led about eight guards, both men and women, to barge into the women's division. They pinned practitioner Ms. Wang Jinfeng to the floor. They put a plastic sheet over her face, pried her mouth open with a stainless steel bar, jammed a tube into her mouth, and fed her corn porridge. Ms. Wang's face was white as a sheet and she nearly suffocated. Practitioner Li Baojie was tortured to death this way.

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

2. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/3/5/122087.html