Xiangfan First Detention Centre Uses Force-feeding Tube as a Cruel Tool of Torture

[Hubei Province]

In the First Detention Centre of the Xiangfan Police Department, Falun Gong practitioners were separated and placed into cells with criminal inmates. When practitioners went on hunger strike to protest the illegal detention, their hands were handcuffed behind their backs, they were also shackled and force-fed. The police guards ordered that the force-feeding tubes not be pulled out and ordered the criminals to monitor the practitioners. The criminals had to watch practitioners day and night. This made the criminals very tired and anxious. They found all kinds of excuses to beat up the practitioners who had their hands cuffed behind their backs, shackles on their feet and tubes in their stomachs. Even when practitioners stopped the hunger strike, the police guards still ordered that the tube be kept inside and that practitioners be force-fed twice with liquid every day. Since they were handcuffed with their hands behind their backs, they couldn' lie down. Thus in the evening, the practitioners had to sit on a bed board. With a tube pushed down into his or her stomach through the nose and then oesophagus, the practitioner was in so much pain that he or she couldn' lie down. The open end of the tube was exposed in the air and only had a little gauze wrapped on it. If the practitioner had the tube knocked out or vomited out, the guards would push it in again.

In medical use, a force-feeding tube is mostly used to release the pressure in the stomach and intestines in rescuing patients in critical condition. In the First Detention Centre of Xiangfan Police Department, it became a tool for torturing practitioners on hunger strike.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/3/21/20073.html