The government of China really sucks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/14/china-police-chief-dies-custody
Chinese police chief’s widow alleges torture after he dies in custody
After the sudden death of Xie Zhigang, rights group says forced confessions are rampant in China despite new rules
She Xianglin She Xianglin served 11 years in prison for his wife’s murder before going free when she turned up alive.
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Within a day of his detention, Xie Zhigang was dead. His interrogators had called the emergency services because he “had no appetite”. He died in hospital, where doctors recorded the cause as a sudden heart attack.
His widow said his body told a more complicated story. “There were bruises all over his body, and deep scars on his wrist and ankles. Five of his ribs were broken,” said Wang Li, who alleges that he died due to torture.
In a country that has seen repeated scandals over deaths in custody and forced confessions, two things about Xie’s case stand out. First, the death in Benxi city, Liaoning, in December came months after China introduced new rules designed to reduce the use of torture in investigations. Second, Xie, who had been detained on suspicion of corruption, was a local police chief.
“Forced confessions are rampant,” said Phelim Kine, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “That a security official who fell foul of the authorities might end up being a victim of the same treatment really is not surprising. This is the template for investigating crimes.”
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http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/list-of-china-modern-torture-methods-photo/
"List of China Modern Torture Methods:
- Burning
- Electric Shock
- Sexual Abuse
- Psychiatric & Drug Abuse
- Force-feeding
- Savage beatings
- Freezing and Exposing
- Water Dungeon
- Forced Abortions
- “Death Bed”
- “Tiger Bench”
- “Hell Confinement”
- “Small Cage”
- Forced to Jump from Tall Building
- “Flying an Airplane“
- “Squat“
- “Handcuffed in a Painful Position”
- “Tied up”
- Sitting on “Triangle-ridged Iron Plank”
- “Carrying a Sword on the Back”
- “Chain”
- “Tied to a Bed”
- “Tortured under a Bed”
- “Tied to Trees”
- “Solitary Confinement”
- “Rope Tying”
- “Hanging over the Head”
- “Hanging by Two Thumbs”
- “Hanging Upside Down”
- Hung Up for Extended Period of Time
- “Dog Bite”
- “Snake Bite”
- “Cutting of Flesh”
- “Impaling the Fingers and Toes with Bamboo Stick”
- “Needle Piercing” and “Toe Smashing”
- Cigarette Burn
- The Rampant Spread of Scabies
- Forced to Sit in a “Sewage Pot”
- Garbage Stuffed into the Mouth
- Phlegm Poured into the Mouth
- Force-Feeding with Urine
- Force-Feeding with Feces
- Deprivation of Sleep
- Restricting the Use of the Toilet
- Prohibiting the Use of Sanitary Napkins
- “Covering a Shed” or Suffocation
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Eye Popped out from Beating
Zhang Binghui, female, 51, resident of Changchun City, Jilin
Province. On February 10, 2002, Ms. Zhang Binghui was
detained at the Changchun City’s Kaixuan Hospital because
she refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. The doctors
and nurses at the hospital viciously beat Ms. Zhang with an
electric baton and other instruments, causing one of her eyes
to fall out. She was transferred to the Changchun City Center
Hospital, but her eye could not be saved.
37-year-old Ms. Gao Rongrong (above), a Shenyang accountant, who suffered severe and prolonged torture that left her face disfigured (below) and, four days ago, resulted in her death.
http://faluninfo.net/article/439/
