The Torture of Female Practitioners at the Tiananmen Police Station (Illustration)

Pouring ice cold water on practitioners in the winter

I am a Dafa practitioner living in Baoding District, Hebei Province. In November 2001, I was illegally arrested and put in the Qingquan detention centre, where I met 11 female practitioners from northeastern China. After talking with them, I learned that they went to Beijing to appeal and were arrested. They were first illegally detained in the Tiananmen Police Station and then sent here, to Qingquan detention centre.

They described to me how they were tortured at the Tiananmen Police Station. The police placed each practitioner in small individual cells which had a water hose hanging from the ceiling. The police stripped off practitioners' clothes and poured ice cold water on them for over a half hour. The cell was so small that a person could hardly turn around in it. In the cold winter police poured ice cold water on the heads of practitioners. The inhumane police even cut off the buttons from the clothes of the practitioners so when they were released from the cells they had to use their hands to pull their clothes together to cover their bodies.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/6/8/76505.html