A lawyer in Hebei Province, northern China, used his social media, Weibo, to expose how police extracted a confession from a prisoner using horrific torture methods. Followers found the techniques cruel, and one viewer commented, “It looks like what Falun Gong has been saying is real.”
Li Zhuang, once a Beijing lawyer, posted a video on April 4 describing methods local police of Li County, Baoding City, employed to torture a victim to extract confessions. The methods included waterboarding, prying the mouth open with a screwdriver, inserting chopsticks into the urethra, and feeding with laundry detergent.
Lawyer Zhuang was framed and sentenced in 2010 after he exposed the crimes of Bo Xilai, former mayor of the southwestern megapolis of Chongqing, in persecuting local entrepreneurs and robbing people of their private assets in the name of cracking down on crime in Chongqing.
Trampling Human Civilization
In the video, Zhuang said that the police kept the victim on a farm where various tortures were used, one after another, to extract confessions.Waterboarding, for example, is covering the prisoner’s face with soaking wet cloth, making it difficult to breathe and could damage the lungs of the captive and even cause asphyxia; using a screwdriver to pry the teeth out; and inserting a disposable chopstick into the person’s urethra.
In this particular case, the victim grabbed a pair of scissors used to remove fish scales from the investigation team and used them to cut his belly just to avoid further torture. Zhuang said, “His intestines flowed out.”
At a 2018 book fair in Hong Kong, Zhuang talked about the negative influence on the Chinese legal system of Bo’s governance in Chongqing. In his talk, he described a case in which the Chongqing police extracted a confession from a police officer named Yue, who was believed to be a member of the underworld.
When all means failed, Zhuang said, Yue finally caved when local authorities took his son from school and tortured the child in front of him.
Subsequently, Yue signed the confession prepared by the investigators and was sentenced to death by a firing squad.
The Bloody Old Red Army
Following Zhuang’s post, many netizens pointed out that using torture is just a tradition of the red army terror.Netizen Wayne Lee wrote, “These torturers have basically degenerated into walking dead who take pleasure in destroying their own kind. Their existence … is incompatible with human civilization!”
Another netizen brought up the book “How the Red Sun Rose” by Gao Hua. The book recorded numerous torture methods revealed in the self-reports of veterans of the red army, memoirs, diaries, local county chronicles, and internal public documents during the Mao Zedong era. The netizen said, “... the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used all sorts of extortion and cruel methods … [the book] silenced Unit 731 and brought tears to Nazi guards. It’s highly credible; they are words of blood and tears.”
Unit 731 was a lethal human experimentation and biological weapons research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
In July 1999, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a persecution of Falun Gong, an ancient cultivation practice based on the universal principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Throughout China, detention centers, labor camps, prisons, and various black jails constantly harbored the tortures and crimes of the CCP used to force Falun Gong cultivators to give up their beliefs.
To this day, the CCP continues to persecute Falun Gong adherents.
