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    Chinese Torture

    The Chinese Water Torture is infamous. And it might not be real. But here's some real stuff, just to launch this thread.

    Is Chinese Torture Exhibit a Veiled Threat to Corrupt Officials?
    A ghoulish exhibition of ancient torture instruments has caused a stir in China.



    Almost 200 methods of Chinese torture are depicted in a ghoulish exhibition that sparked intense interest on social media in the country Tuesday.

    Pictures from the Chinese Ancient Instruments of Torture Exhibition spread like wildfire online after state media published photos from the show at the weekend.



    The exhibition, which opened last year at an educational center in the eastern city of Huai'an, includes reenactments of prisoners being hung over a fire, flayed and being tortured on what is known as a "Tiger Bench" - pictured above - a Qing dynasty (1644-1912) device that contorted victims' legs and arms in high pressure positions that could break bones or tear apart joints.



    Chinese social media users have speculated that the exhibition is a veiled threat to officials in the midst of a widely publicized anti-corruption crackdown by the ruling Communist Party. "If we use these instruments on corrupt officials, 90 percent of us will support it," declared one user on China’s Twitter-like service, Weibo.



    "These torture instruments were for normal people in the past, but now they should be used as a warning for corrupt officials today," another social media user wrote. Another intoned: "Communist Party members are not afraid of death!"



    A woman who answered the phone at the center’s corporate owner, Huai'an ChuZhou Cultural Development Corporation Ltd., said: "There is no political meaning to the exhibit." She told NBC News that the exhibition was meant to show "what life was like in an ancient court" and that for corrupt officials who were caught in imperial China, "life back then was just like this."

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    ttt 4 2016!

    I forgot about this thread...until this news piece:

    Our torture chair is a COMFY chair, China insists: Nobody expected Beijing to copy the Spanish Inquisition for its interrogations

    Chinese officials claim notorious torture method is actually a comfy chair
    Assured the UN that 'tiger chair' used by police not designed to inflict pain
    Beijing authorities say chair is to ensure prisoners do not hurt themselves
    Health & safety explanation carries echoes of Monty Python comedy sketch

    By STEVE DOUGHTY, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
    PUBLISHED: 19:09 EST, 28 January 2016 | UPDATED: 03:17 EST, 29 January 2016

    China’s most notorious method of torture is actually no more than a comfy chair, officials have assured the UN.
    The ‘tiger chair’ used by police for interrogations is designed not to inflict pain but to ensure that prisoners do not hurt themselves, according to Beijing authorities.
    The health and safety explanation – which carries echoes of the Monty Python comedy sketch in which the Spanish Inquisition threatens an old lady with ‘the comfy chair’ – was given to a hearing of the UN committee against torture in Geneva.


    Comfortable: Chinese officials have assured the UN that the country's most notorious method of torture is actually no more than a comfy chair. The 'tiger chair' (pictured) is used by Chinese police for interrogations

    Evidence denying China’s use of torture was given to the committee in Geneva by Beijing Public Security Ministry official Li Wensheng.
    ‘The Chinese government prohibits torture and prosecutes any personnel or state organs for torture activities. There are plenty of cases involving prosecution of torture offenders,’ Mr Li said, although he did not supply figures
    ‘We use the interrogation chair to guarantee the safety of the detainee, to prevent the detainee from escaping, from self-harm or attacking other people,’ Mr Li added.
    ‘The chair is sometimes packaged with soft padding to increase a sense of comfort, a sense of safety.’
    The description contrasts with a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation, which said: 'Former detainees said they were strapped in this metal chair for hours and even days, deprived of sleep, and immobilised until their legs and buttocks were swollen.’


    Beijing insists the chair is designed not to inflict pain but to ensure that prisoners do not hurt themselves, a health and safety explanation which carries echoes of the Monty Python comedy sketch in which the Spanish Inquisition threatens an old lady with ‘the comfy chair’ (pictured)

    Former detainee Lei Xinmu said: ‘The tiger chair is an iron chair, its iron buckles fastened around your hands and feet.
    'I sat on the tiger chair, and had two spotlights shining on top of my head. They took turns talking to me and they did not let me sleep, I could not stand it. I was buckled in the chair for nine days and nights.’
    Another former prisoner, Golog Jigme, said: ‘Regarding the interrogation chair, they said it was for the detainee’s safety. Look at my wounds on my hands and feet – it was brutal torture.’
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    Contemporary Chinese torture

    Keep in mind, this is Epoch Times, a Falun Gong associated press.

    This Chinese Woman Was Subject to Medieval-Style Torture in Prison for 3 Years
    By Frank Fang, Epoch Times | May 16, 2016 Last Updated: May 16, 2016 10:02 pm


    Wang Yuqing, of Qitaihe City in China’s northern province of Heilongjiang, tells how she was tortured in prison in China between 2003 and 2006. (Minghui.org)

    For nearly three years, a Chinese woman withstood abuse and torture from prison guards and her fellow inmates for refusing to give up her faith.

    Wang Yuqing, 43, of Qitaihe City in China’s northern province of Heilongjiang, was incarcerated at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison from September 2003 to March 2006, according to Minghui.org, a clearinghouse for information about the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

    During this time, she was “handcuffed from behind, held in isolation, handcuffed and hung up, and tortured by other means,” according to an account by Wang that was only recently published to Minghui.

    Wang was imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline that combines slow moving exercises with teachings of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice has been persecuted since July 1999, when Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered a sweeping suppression of it because he felt threatened by Falun Gong’s popularity. According to official figures, there were an estimated 70 million Falun Gong practitioners just before the persecution.

    Soon after arriving in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison, Wang Yuqing was shocked to learn that inmates sometimes carried electric batons and were made to help the prison guards persecute Falun Gong practitioners. During one so-called “physical training session,” Wang and other practitioners were forced to run in circles under the watchful eyes of baton-wielding inmates. When the practitioners got tired and slowed down, the prison guards and other inmates would hurl batons, water bottles, and verbal insults in their direction.

    Initially, Wang refused to put on prison uniform or answer roll call because she believed that she had committed no crime in keeping her faith. To make Wang renounce her belief, the prison guards handcuffed her right arm over her shoulder to a bed frame, and got other inmates to violently force on her prison uniform.

    In another insistence, the prison guards handcuffed one of her hands to a lower bed frame, and the other hand to the higher bed frame of a bunk bed. In this position, Wang couldn’t sit, stand, or squat.

    For seven months in 2004, Wang was made to occupy a tiny prison guard office with 30 other Falun Gong practitioners, and at least one practitioner was denied the use of the bathroom and had to relieve herself in that room.

    Wang’s family members were allowed to visit her, but she was forbidden from telling them about how she was being mistreated in prison. “You will be denied family visits if you continue saying those things,” Wang recalled a prison guard telling her when she tried to inform her elder sister about her sufferings.

    Most chillingly, the prison guards had at the end of 2004 instructed five inmates to forcibly pin Wang down so that they could draw her blood. Investigators of live organ harvesting allegations note that the Chinese authorities are known to draw blood from Falun Gong practitioners to build up an organ donation bank for transplant surgery.

    According to Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, a global humanitarian watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., the number of Falun Gong practitioners that have been subjected to forced organ harvesting is estimated to be more than 100,000.Wang Yuqing, of Qitaihe City in China’s northern province of Heilongjiang, tells how she was tortured in prison in China between 2003 and 2006. (Minghui.org)
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