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Hanging
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"Rope Tying" |
With both arms tied tightly behind the back, the victims are hung up by ropes with both feet off the ground or with only the toes barely touching the ground. Sometimes there are sharp sticks on the ropes. When such rope is tightly fastened, it will cut into one's flesh, causing extreme pain.
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"Rope Tying" | 1. Li Haiyan, female, 21, resident of Heilongjiang Province
On May 24, 2001, Shi Yingbai, the First Camp Commander, and Zhang Bo, leader of the 12th Team of the Wanjia Labor Camp, sent sixty female Falun Gong practitioners to the male section of the labor camp to punish them for not giving up Falun Gong. Eight female practitioners who were assigned to the fourth male team were hung up on the railing of the top bunker with their arms tied behind their backs and their feet above the ground. On the first day of the torture, Ms. Li Haiyan and another female practitioner fainted. Both Ms. Li's arms and hands were completely numb. Her fingers were unable to work properly after they regained feeling.
2. Song Yanzhao, male, 28, resident of Huangyang Town in Wuwei City, Gansu Province
In April 2001, at Pingantai Labor Camp, Lan-zhou City, since Mr. Song Yanzhao refused to renounce Falun Gong, he was tortured frequently. One day, Mr. Song was beaten and his ribs were broken. Despite this, the leader of his work team, tied Mr. Song's hands behind his back and hung him up. Mr. Song died from the torture on May 2, 2001. |
"Hanging over the Head" |
1. Wu Jiyang, female, 34, lives in No. 536 Gongbin Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
On January 24, 2001, Ms. Wu Jiyang started a hunger strike to protest the torture at the Wanjia Labor Camp. In retaliation, the guards cuffed her hands to the top of the cell door, which caused her frail body to hang in the air with her feet off the ground. She subsequently fainted from the long periods of torture and her poor physical condition. Ms. Wu could hardly breathe and her entire body weight hung from her wrists. The handcuffs cut her wrists and made them bleed. On the sixth day of her hunger strike, she was chained to the "iron chair." She fainted on the chair because she was frail and suffering from extreme exhaustion. After she regained consciousness, the guard pinched her nose and force-fed her with milk. After the force-feeding, the guards put her in the iron chair again. She was tortured in this way for thirty-eight days.
2. Yang Xiuli, female, 33, employee of Ethylene Petrifaction Factory, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province
Ms. Yang Xiuli was detained in the Wanjia Labor Camp because she practices Falun Gong. On June 18, 2001, Ms. Yang, along with other practitioners, protested the arbitrary extension of their detention terms. More than ten guards beat them until they lost consciousness. They were dragged into solitary compartments in Team 7. A guard hung up Ms. Yang by her wrists. The guard not only continuously cursed Ms. Yang, but also pulled her hair and slammed her head against the iron heater. She asked many times to use the restroom, but she was denied. Finally, she could not help but urinate on the ground. Guard Wu Baoyun took a mop, soaked it with urine, and wiped it on Ms. Yang's face and mouth and kept swearing at her. The humiliation caused Ms. Yang to lose consciousness. She was hung from noon of June 18 to the morning of June 20, 2001. |
"Hanging by Two Thumbs" |
Huang Guodong, male, resident of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province
At the beginning of February 2001, the Nanshan Police Station at Mudanjiang City arrested Mr. Huang Guodong. The police used a rope to tie Mr. Huang's two thumbs together and hang him up by his thumbs with a rope. Whenever Mr. Huang lost consciousness, they used a coin to scratch his ribs, or they jabbed him with toothpicks. He was repeatedly beaten and tortured. Mr. Huang's head was terribly swollen from the beating. The walls of the room where Mr. Huang was tortured were spattered with blood. Mr. Huang was tortured into a deformed shape. He was not able to speak or sit. |
"Hanging Upside Down" |
Cao Yingchun, female, 47, resident of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province
In December 1999, Ms. Cao Yingchun was arrested and sent to the Wanjia Labor Camp because she practices Falun Gong. Her family was not allowed to visit her. A guard ordered a criminal prisoner to take her to the top of a bunk bed and hang her upside down. She was seriously injured as a result and she immediately fainted. For the next four months, Ms. Cao was bedridden and could not take care of herself.
On July 19, 2001, Ms. Cao was force-fed and beaten. Afterwards, she could not stop vomiting. She had difficulty breathing and her nose and mouth were bleeding. In the following days, male criminals force-fully removed her from her cell by dragging her out by her hands and feet. Then her face was beaten and bruised, and she was force-fed again. Within five days, they tortured this healthy woman to the point that she was incapacitated. The wound in her nose could not heal, her right eyelid remained shut, she could not move her eye, she had difficulty swallowing food, she vomited even when drinking water or soup, and for nearly a month she was unable to move her bowels. |
Hung Up for Extended Period of Time |
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The practitioners are stripped naked
and hung up |
Han Haidong, male, resident of Liaoning Province
Mr. Han Haidong was sentenced to forced labor in the Liaoyang Labor Camp because he practices Falun Gong. On September 13, 2001, the guards forced him to stand on a column of seven bricks and cuffed his wrists to the top of a steel gate. He was then left to stand there for hours. When he lost his balance, the bricks fell and he was left hanging in the air. Mr. Han was hung up this way for more than one hour under the sun. Then Captain Xu handcuffed Mr. Han's wrists to a steel bar on a vehicle, leaving his toes barely touching the ground. In the afternoon, the guard handcuffed Mr. Han's wrists to the beams up in the ceiling. On September 15, 2001, Mr. Han was handcuffed and hung up the same way for the whole day. On September 16, 2001, officer Li hung Mr. Han on the wires of the telephone pole with six bricks under his feet. He was hung in various ways all the way through September 18, 2001. Both of his wrists suffered deep cuts from handcuffs because of the hanging.
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