Sleep Deprivation: Practitioners were handcuffed to metal bars in a squatting posture for long periods of time. This was often used for practitioners who refused to give up their beliefs, didn't follow orders, or who wrote solemn declarations [statements that recant any negative words that practitioners have said or signed their names to under extreme duress and/or torture] to resist the brainwashing. This punishment often lasted for hours. Some practitioners were kept like this for ten days. The police there often persecuted a practitioner this way repeatedly.
Exposure to Cold: The practitioners were stripped of coats during the forced squatting. They were only allowed to wear a sweater, and some were only wearing slippers on their feet. They were put in a cold, dank basement with the windows wide open to the frigid winter air.
Humiliation by Cutting off Their Hair: At 7 pm, Nov. 3rd, the vice director Li Quanming ordered the imprisoned criminals Ma Yufang and Zhang Shuling, who willingly helped the persecution in order to get reductions in their sentences, to cut the practitioners' hair, making it as ugly as possible. The 40 practitioners who were forced to squat in the basement all had their hair cut off by these thugs.
Forced Squatting: If the practitioners who were forced to squat for long periods lowered their heads due to drowsiness or stretched their limbs, or sat down on the ground, these thugs would beat them immediately. Guards would pinch the muscles under the practitioners' arms, and often balanced a small bench on their heads. If the bench fell, they would beat, kick and pour cold water into the practitioners' clothing. Ding Hongjuan was beaten very badly. Even the thugs Ma Yufang and Zhang Shuling said: "We found no new places left to hit."
Deprivation of use of toilet facilities.
Starvation: Each day, guards provided only two meals, always insufficient in quantity. Usually, practitioners were given only half a bun and a little soup. They dared not eat or drink much because of the restriction on using the toilet. Yang Ruiqing, Zhang Guixiang and Li Hongxia ate only two meals a day for a very long period. Because she refused to greet the warden, Li Hongxia was handcuffed to a metal chair with her hands stretched out for seven days.
Sealing the Mouth and Covering the Eyes: On Nov. 3rd, some police officers, assisted by convicts, stuffed a rag into a practitioner's mouth and then sealed her mouth with plastic tape. On Dec. 6th they blindfolded Ding Hongjuan, Wang Guixiang, Hao Xiuzhi and Sun Xiuming, and confined them in a small cell on the second floor. The guards opened the cell's windows, letting in the winter cold. They also sealed practitioners' mouths except at mealtime. After the meal, they would have practitioners' mouths sealed again.
Electrical Shocking after Drenching with Water: Because Wang Guixiang refused to write a repentance statement, guards dragged her upstairs, stripped off her sweater and poured water on her naked body. Then the thugs shocked her with electric batons all over her body, especially around her heart. She refused to yield after much abuse, so she was put back in her cell. She was unable to eat for two days afterwards. She had been in good health, but now always feels discomfort in the region of her heart and cannot walk steadily.
Forcing Practitioners to Curse Teacher: When some practitioner began to show signs of weakening under the severe persecution, the wardens forced them to swear at Teacher and write repentance statements. They intended to weaken the practitioners' wills by doing this.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/5/27/51118.html
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