saved a lot detailed descriptions how executions were carried out in past centuries. The most brutal torture of the Middle Ages was recorded in Europe.
It is still amazing how diabolically inventive and insanely cruel a person can be in relation to his own kind.
Museum of Torture, St. Petersburg
In this article, we will look at the most terrible tortures of the Middle Ages, which will not only surprise you, but also make you shudder.
Please note that in the series we have already told.
spiked shoes
One of the popular tortures of the Middle Ages was spiked shoes. These are metal boots with a sharp stud under the heel. The spike height was adjusted by a screw mechanism.
When they were put on a person, he was forced to stand on tiptoe so as not to pierce his heels. However, it was simply impossible to stay in such a position for a long time, so sooner or later the unfortunate man stepped on the thorn.
Heretic Fork
This device is a rod attached to the neck. On both sides there were a pair of spikes.
The first 2 dug into the chin, and the other two into the base of the throat. As a result of this torture, the man's head was completely immobilized.
Witch bath chair
This type of torture was especially popular in the Middle Ages. After all, a terrible revelry of the Inquisition reigned in Europe, in all its bloody madness.
So, the accused of witchcraft was tied to a chair suspended from wooden beam, and then kept under water, periodically allowing them to swallow air.
Such "bathing" was often carried out in winter. Sometimes such torture could last for days.
spanish boot
The Spanish boot was attached to the victim's leg before interrogation began. If a person refused to agree with one or another statement, the construction was tightened more strongly, breaking his bones.
Sometimes the inquisitor deliberately hit the boot with a hammer to further aggravate the situation. As a result, the skin on the leg turned into a bag filled with crushed bones.
water torture
The offender was tied to a plane with a raised center. Thanks to this, the victim's stomach was raised up. After that, hay or rags were stuffed into the mouth so that it remained open, and a huge amount of water began to be poured.
The torture continued until the unfortunate man confessed his sin. Otherwise, he just died.
At the end of the torture, the executioner threw the victim to the ground, and began to jump on his swollen stomach. One can only guess what the medieval audience experienced when looking at such a “final”.
Iron hook, or cat's claw
Initially, a person was tied by the arms and legs to a wooden platform. Then with iron hooks they slowly tore his flesh.
Often during this torture of the Middle Ages, bones were pulled out along with body parts.
Rack
During the Middle Ages, there were 2 ways to apply this terrible torture. In the first case, the victim's hands were tied behind his back and hung from the ceiling.
Then a large load was tied to the legs, as a result of which the limbs twisted out of the joints.
In the second case, the tortured person was tied in a horizontal position on a special table, and with the help of a simple mechanism, they were stretched in opposite directions.
This led to a slow rupture of the tendons and joints. It was almost impossible to survive after this torture.
Quartering by horses
This type of torture always ended in death. At first, the condemned was tied by the limbs to horses. Then the command was given to the animals to jump, as a result of which the body was torn to pieces.
In the middle Ages this species torture was used both on the living and already dead people, as a sign of intimidation and demonstration of "full retribution".
Pear
The mechanism was inserted into the rectum, vagina or mouth. After that, the four petals of the pear began to open to the sides, causing unbearable pain to the victim.
In the end, there was a rupture of the internal organs, accompanied by profuse bleeding. Complete disability or, most often, death from the consequences, were inevitable.
Purification of the soul
The Catholic clergy of the Middle Ages believed that the soul of a sinner, even if defiled by the violation of certain prohibitions, can still be saved.
The purification procedure took place as follows: a person was tied to a table, and then they began to pour boiling water into his throat or throw burning coals there.
hanging cage
In the cold season, the victim was chained into a cage, hung from a beam and lowered into the water, where inevitable death from hypothermia occurred.
On hot days, on the contrary, the cage was left hanging under until death occurred. Naturally, no one gave water, since all interest in the prolonged torture of several days disappeared.
Skull press
Here is another terrible torture of the Middle Ages, used in order to force the sinner to repent. The head was placed in a special device with a screw mechanism.
The screw squeezed the skull of the unfortunate, causing unbearable pain. First, the teeth crumbled, then the jaw, and then the bones of the skull could not stand it.
An interesting fact is that today such procedures are practiced during the interrogation of people. This usually happens in third world countries.
Bonfire
The inquisitors of the Middle Ages burned heretics at the stake in order to "protect" the rest of the people from their negative impact. Such executions were often attended by many people.
In this way, the common people could see what awaits those who dare to criticize the teachings catholic church. Sometimes the judge, who demanded this type of torture, made a clarification: “Burn on slow fire."
Vigil, or the Cradle of Judas
This device was considered quite “humane” in the Middle Ages, since it did not break bones and did not tear ligaments. The victim was lifted on a rope and seated on the top of a triangle.
Then the unfortunate slow one was lowered. Very often, a person experiencing the unbearable torment of this torture lost consciousness, unable to withstand the hellish pain.
Then, the executioners lifted him, brought him to his senses, and repeated the procedure again.
Cradle
This torture is similar to the previous one. Only here a person was put not on a pyramid, but on a triangular beam, tying weights to both legs. The result was a horrific death.
Iron Maiden
This torture design was made in the form of a female figure. Inside it were blades and spikes. They were fastened so that they did not touch the vital organs.
That is, death came long and painfully. Sometimes it came only after a few days.
For the first time this type of execution was used in the Middle Ages in 1515.
Interrogation chair or witch chair
The sentenced was stripped naked and sat on a chair studded with sharp spikes. The unfortunate person could not move, as this led to a tear in the flesh.
Sometimes, in addition to this, medieval inquisitors tormented the limbs of the victim with tongs.
Col
This torture came from the east. A person was impaled on a vertical pointed stake. Under his weight, he slowly descended, tearing all the internal organs.
A professional executioner could seat the victim in such a way that the top of the stake came out through his throat. As a result of this "professionalism", the execution lasted several days.
Saw
The sentenced was hung upside down, and the legs were spread apart, fixing them in this position. Then 2 executioners, starting from the groin, began to slowly saw the unfortunate man.
The brutality of this torture speaks of the truly boundless cruelty of the Middle Ages. After all, the whole process was completely carried out by human hands.
wheeling
Before the execution began, large bones were broken to a person, and only after that they were tied to big wheel. In this position, his face looked up at the sky.
The condemned was dying of dehydration and pain shock. Sometimes the executioners made cuts on the body, which soon began to peck at the birds.
In some cases, a wooden platform or crossed logs were used instead of a wheel.
Information about the death penalty is about the same age as the information about the first states. As a legal form of punishment, the death penalty appeared during the transition of society to legal relations. Later arose "principle of talion" according to which the punishment should be equal to the crime. Further, the death penalty was associated with ritual murder and sacrifice to the gods. In many ancient and medieval states, the type of death penalty depended on the personality and position of the convict. Many types of executions were aimed not at alleviating, but at prolonging suffering.
Public executions for the crowd turned into a kind of sports competition: the antics of the convict, speaking of contempt for death, were also greeted with applause (an indecent gesture addressed to girls, a request to the priest to bring a drink instead of a cross, statements like "for me, death is not worse than an enema", etc. ), and the skill of the executioner - a successful blow is a successful blow both in the stadium and on the scaffold. It happened hysterical personalities deliberately committed crimes in order to be in the center of such flattering attention.
The death penalty was so demonstrative, spectacular, it had so many conventions, allegories, symbols, and humor, although primitive: bake a person in a hollow copper bull so that his cries imitate the roar of an animal, roast on a spit like a hare, fry in flour like carp.
1. Iron Maiden
The "Iron Maiden" is an instrument of death or torture of the Middle Ages, which was a cabinet made of iron in the form of a woman dressed in a costume of a 16th-century townswoman. It is assumed that having placed the convict there, the closet was closed, and the sharp long nails with which the inner surface of the chest and arms of the “iron maiden” was seated pierced his body; then, after the death of the victim, the movable bottom of the cabinet fell, the body of the executed was thrown into the river and carried away by its current.
At the same time, apparently, the nails inside the “iron maiden” were located in such a way that the victim did not die immediately, but after a rather long time, during which her judges had the opportunity to continue the interrogation.
According to the stories of ancient writers, a similar method of execution was first invented by a Spartan tyrant. Nabis. The device he invented looked like a woman sitting on a chair, and was called "Apegoy", named after the tyrant's wife. As the condemned man approached, Apega got up and threw both her arms on his back, studded, like her chest, with sharp nails that tore the body apart.
2. Starvation
Those who worked poorly in a poor house were raised in a basket above the table, where the more industrious ate.
3. Torture and execution by water
Drowning was used when it was necessary to execute many people at the same time. So the murderers of parents were executed in Ancient Rome and Greece, and in the Middle Ages, a water test was used in relation to witches: they threw the bound into the water, if she drowned, then she was innocent, and if not, then she was hanged.
4. Burial alive
Back in ancient Rome and Ancient China burying alive in the ground was applied to the Vestals for the loss of virginity.
In medieval Russia, such an execution was applied to a wife who killed her husband. The victim, buried in the ground up to his shoulders, usually died on the second or third day from dehydration and hunger.
5. Quartering
Quartering was appointed for crimes against the authorities, for treason, rebellion in medieval China and Russia. The offender was first cut off his arms and legs, and then his head.
6. Wheeling
From 1450 to 1750 in Europe every day at least one person died on the wheel. Wheeling consisted in breaking each limb with an iron crowbar in two places and the spine, then the body was tied to the wheel so that the heels converged with the back of the head, and left to die.
7. Filling the throat
Filling the throat with molten metal was applied in Russia until 1672 to counterfeiters. Also poured other liquids.
8. Impaling
The impalement consisted in the slow penetration of the stake into the person, the agony lasted for several days. This execution was used in medieval Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
9. Hanging
One of the brutal methods of killing slaves. Their hanger is a hook to make them die of thirst and hunger.
10. Decapitation
For a very long time it was used as the main type of execution for almost the entire second millennium of our era.
Death of King CharlesI.
Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1557
If in England they cut off heads in a simple "clumsy" way, then in France they went further and invented a special device - guillotine .
Execution of LouisXVI, 1793
11. Gallows
AT medieval France the stationary gallows served as a sign of the power of the lord: the duke had six pillars, the baron had four, the chatelain had three, and the other small fry had only two. In ancient Rome, slaves had a separate executioner. In many countries, the thief was hanged higher or lower, depending on the size of the theft.
Hanging was considered a dishonorable execution, and beheading was considered privileged, although in China, for example, everything was the other way around: it is considered shameful to lose a member there, and perhaps that is why such a surgical, highly skilled execution as dissection into a thousand pieces arose. - on a marble table, with the help of knives of various shapes, each of which is intended for one operation: for tearing out eyes, for removing genitals, “for hands”, “for legs”.
Gallows executioners often prided themselves on being able to get it right on the first try. They came up with formulas to determine the length of the hatch, which took into account the weight of the convict. Hands and feet were tied so that the body fell down vertically. The executioners also experimented with the thickness of the rope and the placement of the noose with the sole purpose of achieving instant loss of consciousness by displacing the spinal column and tearing spinal cord. Captain Kidd was executed in 1701, the rope broke and he fell to the ground, but he was picked up and hanged again, this time successfully. It is noteworthy that the bodies of the hanged were left on the gallows for some time, set in the execution order. On execution wharves in 18th-century England, the bodies of pirates were left hanging until the tides washed them away.
12.
Garrotte
Garrote (Spanish “garrote”, “dargarrote” - twisting, tightening; execute) is a Spanish method of execution by strangulation. Initially, the garrote was a noose with a stick, with which the executioner killed the victim. Over time, it transformed into a metal hoop, driven by a screw with a lever at the back. Before execution, the convict was tied to a chair or a pole; a bag was put on his head. After the execution of the sentence, the bag was removed so that the audience could see the face of the victim.
Later, the garrote was improved. Thus, the Catalan garrote appeared, where the screw was equipped with a point, which, when turned, gradually screwed into the neck of the convict and crushed his cervical vertebrae. Contrary to popular belief, such a device was "more humane", as the victim died faster.
During the conquest of America by the conquistadors, garrote became widespread in the Spanish colonies.
In 1828, King Ferdinand VII abolished hanging and introduced the garrote as the only legal method of execution in Spain for criminals. The execution was abolished only in 1974.
12. Burning at the stake
Burning was actively used in antiquity in many countries, but it flourished in the Middle Ages, because this is how the Inquisition executed heretics. Throughout Europe, this execution reached enormous proportions: thousands of people were burned alive, often in droves, on charges of witchcraft, cohabitation with the devil, blasphemy, and even deviation from the norm. The most famous example is the burning of Joan of Arc.
In Russia, burning was also applied to religious criminals, and the execution was more painful, as it was carried out on a slow fire.
Landscape with a man at the stake, and soldiers around him; illustration, Florence, 1619
13. Torture and executions with the help of animals
One of the most ancient types of execution. The Romans, Assyrians, and Babylonians put on public spectacles by placing prisoners in lion pits. In the East, criminals were killed by allowing elephants to crush their heads and tear them to pieces with their legs and trunks. In the book "Victim Man"James Clark retells the story of civil unrest in Brazil during which locals made incisions in the skin of local prisoners and tied them to the waist in a river infested with piranhas.
In India, the criminal was crushed with the help of a trained elephant. Well, devouring criminals wild animals in ancient Rome, it really happened in the circus and was a favorite show of the Roman people.
Dog bullying
Torture by a cat, London, 1651
Tearing apart by horses
14. Torture and executions for faith
One of the most severe tortures was in the Middle Ages during discord in various currents of Christianity.
Example: Torture of Catholics by Huguenots in southern France
A - starving the shackledpairs in shackles so that they eat each other.
B-bare-stretched along tightly tight rope, which acts like a knife, cutting the body in half.
C - slow roasting on a spit.
The role of the executioner coincided with the role of the priest - it was this that surrounded the executioners with reverence, the charm of which cannot be returned by any pure heart and cold hands. Only the gleam of the sacrament allowed the mass burning of heretics to be turned into attributes of state celebrations: on the occasion of accession to the throne or marriage, on the occasion of the birth of an heir, etc. The work went on for several days, they burned hundreds and thousands, for greater brightness dressing up "illumination means" in gray-soaked shirts and stuffing combustible substances "in the secret parts of the body."
The monarchs did not disdain the role of the executioner either: Darius personally cut off the nose, lips and ears of the Median king, Ivan the Terrible also liked to amuse himself, Peter I personally cut off the heads of five archers (and Alexander Menshikov boasted that he had managed as many as twenty). It was thanks to the mystical, regal reflection, and not to the executioner's virtues, that in some places in Germany the executioners acquired a title of nobility, and in France they occupied a place of honor in solemn processions. Their prestige began to fall when executions began to be given only earthly, utilitarian significance. The executioners were still surrounded by superstitions, but already unflattering ones. They were afraid to live next to them, they were even afraid to accept money from them, looking for blood stains on them. In Russia, it became difficult to find assistant executioners, who had previously simply been pulled out of the crowd, and in 1768 a decree was issued prohibiting general involvement in executioners on a voluntary basis - because of "disorders and insults."
Introduction
( Minghui . org ) Until March 1, 2013, there were 3,649 confirmed deaths of Falun Gong practitioners due to persecution and torture in China. Because of communist party China (CCP) is using vast resources to cover up its crimes, the confirmed death toll is only a small fraction of the real death toll, which is definitely much higher.
Of all practitioners' confirmed deaths, 53% are women.
In fact, tens of thousands of female practitioners are subjected to incredible abuse, including rape, forced abortion, imprisonment, physical torture, administration of unknown drugs, and even organ harvesting while they are still alive. And in addition to that, countless families have been broken up.
This article provides a detailed account of numerous cases various kinds sexual abuse and torture of women who practice Falun Gong
We hope that readers will be able to understand the gravity of the situation and will do everything in their power to help stop these crimes.
Practicing Falun Gong is not a crime. Freedom of belief is a right guaranteed by the Chinese Constitution, but the Chinese Communist Party has been ruthlessly persecuting Falun Gong for nearly fourteen years. Who will you support in your heart? A peaceful spiritual practice that brings great benefits to millions of people around the world, or a cruel and corrupt regime that persecutes it?
Content
Part A - Women who died as a result of torture
Wang Yuhuan: Several layers of her clothes were soaked with blood as she died from wounds caused by torture.
- Yu Xiuling was killed by being thrown from the fourth floor when she was barely breathing.
- Wu Jingxia was beaten to death on the third day after her detention.
- Shi Yongqing was sold by party officials and later raped and tortured to death.
Part B - Women who have been gang-raped
Rape is a common abuse of female Falun Gong practitioners.
- Government officials protect perpetrators who sexually abuse and rape female practitioners.
Part B - Other sexual abuse of female practitioners
Dalian Forced Labor Camp: Severe sexual abuse of female practitioners.
- Bullying practiced at the notoriously brutal Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
- A young girl had a mop handle inserted into her genitals.
Chen Chenglan fainted after the torturers roughly stepped on her chest, and her nose and mouth bled profusely.
Part D - Women are given medications that destroy the central nervous system
Guo Ming died in agony and loneliness after more than ten years of suffering in mental hospitals.
- In the Banqian Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin, female practitioners are drugged.
- Song Huilan's right foot began to rot and then fell off as a result of being injected with harmful drugs.
Warning: some of the photos are hard to read
Part A - Women who died as a result of torture
Torture interrogation is a common method used by CCP agents in an attempt to force practitioners to succumb to pressure. More than 40 methods of torture are known to be used by agents of the regime, and a significant proportion of the victims are women and the elderly. This incredible cruelty resulted in the death or disability of many innocent people.
The CCP Uses Over 40 Torture Methods to Harass Falun Gong Practitioners
Wang Yuhuan: Several layers of clothing were soaked with blood as she died from wounds caused by torture
Wang Yuhuan, from Changchun City, Jilin Province, was arrested more than ten times and sent to forced labor camps nine times before she died.
After Gao Peng and Zhang Heng arrested Wang on March 11, 2002, they tied her up and stuffed her into the trunk of a car before taking her to the torture chamber the following evening. They tied her feet to the "tiger bench" ( torture method) and forced to sit upright with their hands tied behind their backs. Then, every five minutes, they subjected her to a torture called "big shake and press."
"Shake and press" - torture, during which the tormentors shake the victim's hands tied behind his back and pull in different directions, causing the victim's bones to come out of their joints, causing extreme pain.
They also lowered Wang's head as close to her legs as possible until she began to feel like her neck was about to break. At the same time, they pulled hard on her ankles, causing her unbearable pain. As a result of this torture, she trembled and lost consciousness many times.
Very quickly, Wang's hair and clothes were soaked with sweat, tears, and blood. Every time she lost consciousness, the torturers poured cold or boiling water over her to wake her up. The boiling water burned her already damaged skin.
Wang Yuhuan
After more than four hours of torture on the "tiger bench" and being burned with cigarettes, Wang fainted again because she couldn't stand cigarette smoke. The torturers poured cold water on her to wake her up and burned her eyes with cigarettes. Her two front teeth were knocked out, and her face was swollen and black and blue. She also lost hearing in both ears.
Wang was tied to the tiger bench three times in her 17 days of detention, and each round of torture was more brutal than the last. At one point, the police dressed Wang in a thick sweater and tight pants to prevent others from seeing her bloody body, but her clothes were soaked with her blood. They put another layer of clothing on her, but soon she was also soaked in blood.
Although Wang's body was completely exhausted and she was on the verge of life and death after the incessant torture, the police sent her to the prison hospital for further persecution.
As soon as she arrived there, she was tied to a bed and injected with an unknown drug. After that, her legs became numb and her feet became cold. She was also subjected to sexual abuse.
After her release, Wang described how she and other female practitioners were stripped naked and tied to wooden boards for 26 days. All this time, the policemen, doctors and male prisoners constantly mocked them.
On May 9, 2007, Wang was arrested again and interrogated by agents from the Domestic Security Division that same night. When she was released, her entire body was covered with wounds, and her internal organs were severely damaged. She had difficulty swallowing and could not walk on her own. On September 24, 2007, she died at the age of 52.
Yu Xiuling was killed by being thrown from the fourth floor while she was still breathing
Yu Xiuling
Practitioner Yu Xiuling, 32, is from Chaoyang District, Liaoning Province. On September 14, 2011, she was arrested at home and taken to the Shijiazi Detention Center. A few days later, at 8:00 am on September 19, she was transferred to the Longcheng Police Station for interrogation.
After 13 hours of torture, Yu was barely breathing. To cover up their crimes, the police threw her off the fourth floor and cremated her body around midnight that same day.
Wu Jingxia was beaten to death on the third day of detention
Wu Jingxia with his son
Wu Jingxia, a practitioner from Weifang, Shandong Province, has been arrested, imprisoned, beaten and extorted numerous times. On January 17, 2002, she was arrested while distributing truth clarification materials.
The police took her to the Changyueyuan Police Station and handcuffed her to a radiator. The next day, she was transferred to the Kuiwen District Brainwashing Center, where she died on the third day of detention. She was only 29 years old.
When her family saw her body, it was covered in wounds. Wu's face was covered with a towel, but it was clear that blood had flowed from her mouth.
Wu's back was black and blue, and there was a long, red cut on his neck. When the relatives changed her clothes, they saw that the bone of her thigh was broken and the bone came out of the flesh.
W was a breastfeeding mother and was not allowed to express milk for three days while she was in detention, causing her breasts to swell. Seeing that her chest was swollen and it was already causing her pain, the police brutally shocked her with electric batons in the chest area.
After Wu's death, her family's phone was tapped and her family's freedom was restricted.
Shi Yongqing was sold by party officials and later raped and tortured to death
Shi Yongqing
Shi Yongqing, a peasant woman from Qizhou Town, Anguo City, Hebei Province, has been imprisoned many times for going to Beijing and appealing for Falun Gong. She became mentally deranged due to the torture she was subjected to in the Baoding Forced Labor Camp.
In order to avoid responsibility, Qizhou Township Party Secretary Cao sold Ms. Shi to Ding Village, Ding District, where she was abused and raped.
Shi later sued Cao for human trafficking, but she was sent to a forced labor camp. After being released from the camp, she was directly sent to the Zhuozhou Brainwashing Center, where she died as a result of torture on January 27, 2005, at the age of 35.
local branch the police did not allow her relatives to perform an autopsy, they were given 1,000 yuan to buy their silence. Her family were forced to bury her soon after. Her child was forced to drop out of school as there was no one else to take care of him. Her husband had a stroke as a result of stress and lost sight in one eye.
Part B - Women who have been gang-raped
In addition to physical torture, the CCP constantly and systematically uses rape as a way to humiliate and inflict psychological harm on female practitioners.
Illustration of torture method: Sexual abuse of female practitioners
Rape is a common abuse of female Falun Gong practitioners
At the notoriously brutal Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, camp staff threw 18 female practitioners into the men's cells and incited the inmates to rape the women, resulting in death, disability, and mental instability for the victims.
Jiang, an unmarried woman, became mentally deranged after being gang raped and gave birth to a child after being released. Now the child is over 10 years old.
In May 2001, Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province placed more than 50 female practitioners in male cells and incited the male inmates to sexually abuse and rape them.
AT next month Ms. Tan Guanghui, from Bin County, Heilongjiang Province, was taken to the men's cell, where three men raped her. Later, a guard raped her again at Wanjia Hospital. She was also forced to take unknown drugs, which caused her to become mentally deranged.
In the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, female practitioners, including Huang Xin, were stripped of their clothes and thrown into the men's cells, and incited male prisoners to be executed to rape them.
The Guangdong Provincial Forced Labor Camp threatened female practitioners that they would be raped by male inmates if they did not renounce their belief in Falun Gong.
In October 1999, the Fuyu County Detention Center in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, stripped a practitioner naked and placed her in a male cell, where she was gang-raped by male inmates.
In July 2001, agents from Xingtai Police Station and Qiaodong Police Station in Hebei Province handcuffed the hands and feet of female practitioners and raped them in a police car while being taken to a detention center. One of the policemen boasted that he had raped three Falun Gong practitioners.
Government officials protect persecutors who abuse and rape female practitioners as well
The CCP not only incites the persecutors to sexually abuse female practitioners, but also negotiates and protects the persecutors. These persecutors are police officers, 610 Office agents, and people who are incited by the police.
On the evening of May 13, 2003, a senior student named Wei Xingyan from Chongqing was raped at the Baihelin Detention Center in Shapingba in front of two women inmates. After that, at least ten practitioners were sentenced to 5 to 14 years in prison for exposing this "state secret" about this police rape. Ten years later, Wei's whereabouts remain unknown.
On March 17, 2000, two practitioners from Xinjin District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, one of whom was a college student, were gang-raped at the Wuhou District Government Office in Chengdu City, Beijing. Wang Tao and two other police officers were involved in the rape.
In February 2001, Zou Jin, 70, from Changsha City, Hunan Province, was raped at the First Detention Center in Changsha City by a group of police officers from the Jingwanzi Precinct run by Lei Zhen. She was later sentenced to nine years in prison and is currently dead.
In 2002, Hu Qun, head of the Zhengding District 610 Office, Hebei Province, along with two other agents, raped three unmarried female practitioners, one of whom was named Yu, at the Guohao Hotel.
Gao Fei, head of the Zhuozhou City 610 Office and director of the Nanma Brainwashing Center in Hebei Province, raped several female inmates at the brainwashing center. He also tried to stop the victims from exposing his actions.
In April 2004, Chen Danxia from Xianyu District, Fujian Province, was beaten and raped by perpetrators who were instigated by the police. She became pregnant and had to have an abortion. Because of this injury, she became mentally unstable. Her mother, who also practiced Falun Gong, died as a result of the persecution, and her younger sister, also a practitioner, was imprisoned for six years.
While detained at the Changzhi Psychiatric Hospital in Shanxi Province, 19-year-old Xiao Yi was gang-raped 14 times over the course of three nights. Her chest and lower body were covered in scars from cigarette burns. After being severely tortured, she was unable to move.
In the summer of 2002, a 9-year-old girl (an orphan daughter of a practitioner) was raped by three men at the Changping Psychiatric Hospital in Beijing. Her screams and cries were heartbreaking.
Part B - Other sexual abuse of female practitioners
The cases of sexual abuse of female practitioners that have taken place all over China are too many to count. Below are just a few examples.
Female practitioners are constantly shocked with electric batons in the chest and intimate parts
Dalian Forced Labor Camp: Inhuman sexual abuse of female practitioners
In order to force several hundred imprisoned female practitioners to renounce their belief in Falun Gong, officers from the Dalian Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province inflicted extremely inhuman sexual abuse on them, causing irreparable physical and mental harm to the victims.
Chang Xuexia was stripped naked and severely beaten. The group of persecutors, following the instructions of guard Wan Yalin, pinched Chang's nipples and hair on her genitals, and inserted a toothbrush into her genitals. Seeing that there was no bleeding, they took out a brush bigger size and inserted into the genitals.
Wang Lijun was tortured three times with a thick rope they rubbed against her genitals. The persecutors also used a broken wooden stick, which was inserted with a sharp end into her vagina, which caused bleeding in the genital area, and they also became very swollen. She couldn't put on trousers, and she couldn't sit. It was very difficult for her to urinate.
Torture demonstration: Shoe brush inserted into genitals
Fu Shuying was tied to the bed with her arms and legs outstretched and kept in that position for more than an hour. During this time, the pursuers inserted a stick into the genitals, from which they became inflamed and infected. They also used a toothbrush, causing her to bleed profusely. Then they poured a solution into the vagina with hot pepper.
Zhong Shujuan was tortured by inserting a toilet brush into her genitals, causing him to bleed.
Sun Yan was stabbed in her genitals, which caused profuse bleeding. She was then forced to stand at attention, and her blood spilled onto the floor. After this torture, she could not walk normally.
Qu Xumei was hung up for five consecutive days. The pursuers poured into her genitals water solution with hot pepper and rubbed with a rag, as a result of which it is more three months couldn't lie down to sleep.
Man Chunrong poured hot sauce into her genitals.
These shocking methods of torture are beyond the imagination of any normal person, and even the behavior of the most brutal thugs from the street cannot be compared. However, the guards involved shamelessly stated that they were only following orders from superiors in "transforming" practitioners.
- Bullying at the notoriously brutal Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
The guards at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province not only put female practitioners in the men's cells to be raped, but also forced them to strip in front of the cameras to further humiliate them. The guards also forced the women to stand naked outside in the snow to freeze them. The persecutors even inserted electric batons into the women's genitals and shocked them.
In early 2003, Guo Teying and several other guards shocked Wang Yunjie's chest with two electric batons at the same time for several hours without stopping. As a result, Wang's breast tissues were completely torn apart.
The next day, the guards crossed Wang's legs and tied her head with a rope to her legs so tightly that she looked like a ball. They then handcuffed her hands behind her back and hung her by the handcuffs for seven consecutive hours. After that, she could not sit, stand, or walk.
In November 2003, the guards found out that Wang only had a few weeks left to live, so they told her relatives to come and pick her up. After being released, her breasts continued to fester more and more. She died in July 2006.
Wang Yunjie's chest rots due to electric shocks
Xin Suhua from Benxi was kicked on her private parts many times, causing her to fall into a coma.
- A young girl was inserted into the genitals of a handle from a mop
On June 26, 2010, Hu Miaomiao from Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province was detained in the First Division of the Hebei Province Women's Forced Labor Camp. Guard Wang Weiwei and the inmates forced her to stand for long periods of time and beat her severely.
They inserted a mop handle and their fingers into their genitals. Even after three months, her wounds have not yet healed. She could no longer stand upright and move around. This young woman was in unbearable pain.
Chen Chenglan passed out after the persecutors roughly stepped on her chest, and her nose and mouth bled profusely
In 2000, Chen Chenglan from Laishui County, Hebei Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was illegally arrested and sent to the party school, where Laishui Township head Liu Zhenfu pushed her to the floor while beating her, and then violently kicked Chen Chenglan's chest.
Chen immediately bled from her mouth and nose and lost consciousness. Her breasts swelled up and then turned black and blue.
The Chaoyang Second Detention Center in Beijing used the same torture on some female practitioners, whose names are unknown. The persecutors put the victims on the stomach wooden board, and four people jumped or stepped on it with force. As a result, the internal organs of the victims were severely damaged, and blood and urine came out of their bodies.
Another practitioner was stripped naked and tied to a cross. She was forced to defecate in a tied position.
Picture: Several people stand on a woman's stomach
At the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, one practitioner refused to scold Master Li Hongzhi. For this, she was stripped naked and hung from a metal window frame. The persecutors grabbed her chest and pulled her with all their might. As a result of this torture, blood came out of the nipples of her breasts.
Mu Chunyang and another policeman named Pan from Zhuguo Township, Pingdu City, Shandong Province, stripped female practitioners naked and used a poker as a hook, inserting it into the victims' genitals while striking their chests. They also burned their faces with red-hot pokers.
A 29-year-old college teacher from Xinjiang Autonomous Region had her hands cuffed behind her back, and then wires were attached to her breast nipples and an electric current was passed through them.
Part D - Women are given drugs that destroy the central nervous system
In addition to arrests, brutal torture, and sexual abuse, CCP agents also poison stubborn practitioners, causing them unbearable pain, mental illness, and disability.
- Guo Ming died in pain and loneliness after more than a decade of suffering in mental hospitals
Before her arrest, Guo Min worked at the Sima Township Tax Bureau Branch in Laishui County, Hubei Province. Because of her refusal to give up her belief in Falun Gong, she was admitted to the Kangtai Psychiatric Hospital in Huangguan City in 2000 and transferred to the Red Cross Psychiatric Hospital two years later.
More than eight years of detention in the second hospital caused great harm to her physical and psychological health.
Due to harmful drugs and psychological torture, her menstrual period stopped for six years, and her belly swelled to the size of a nine-month pregnancy. In July 2010, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The members of Guo's family, deceived by the CCP's lies, were afraid of being persecuted and therefore feared to demand her release for many years. Guo died on August 4, 2011, at the age of 38, with no one around her.
AT last days During her life in the hospital, Guo was incontinent and no one took care of her.
In the Banqian Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin, female practitioners are poisoned with drugs
The guards threatened the staunch practitioners, saying that they would be tortured and made mentally deranged if they refused to "transform". They secretly mixed food, drink, and drips with unknown drugs that destroyed practitioners' central nervous system.
Many practitioners had difficulty reacting to what was happening, losing their eyesight, feeling in their arms and legs, their blood pressure increased, heart pains appeared, or they became completely mentally abnormal.
Zhao Dewen from Beichen District in Tianjin was forced to take unknown drugs and suffered a stroke. She died in the camp on June 3, 2003.
At the end of 2000, Zhou Xuezhen from Beichen District was arrested at her home. During her detention in the forced labor camp, she was locked up in a pigsty, where she was badly bitten by mosquitoes. As a result of this torture, she lost consciousness.
She was also kept in solitary confinement and forced to take unknown drugs. The guards only released her when she became mentally disturbed.
Zhao Binghong worked for oil field Dagan in Tianjin. She became mentally deranged after being tortured in a forced labor camp. Despite her condition, the guards often incited incarcerated criminals and drug addicts to beat her, causing her entire body to turn black and blue. She was released only after the end of her sentence.
On November 14, 2008, Chen Yumei from Dagang District in Tianjin was arrested. She was chained to a bed with her legs and arms sprained on both sides for more than two years. She was also forcibly injected with unknown drugs.
The guards even intentionally pumped air into Chen's body to make her die faster. She was released only after she became mentally deranged.
Torture Demonstration: "Dead Man's Bed"
Bai Hong used to work at Quanyechang Health Clinic in Heping District, Tianjin City. After she was imprisoned in a forced labor camp in the winter of 2002, the persecutors' collaborators severely beat her, then stripped her naked and locked her up in a pigsty.
Bai went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. So the persecutors tied her to the bed. They also made her lie naked on cement slab. On another occasion, the persecutors threatened her that they would leave her with the dogs. As a result of this persecution, Bai became mentally deranged.
Wang Jingxiang was mentally and physically tortured in the forced labor camp. The guards mixed unknown drugs into her food. Wang became mentally deranged and temporarily lost her memory.
Mu Xiangjie is a practitioner from Tianjin City. She was tortured and injected with unknown drugs. For a period of time, she became mentally deranged and found it difficult to control her thoughts.
Wang Yuling from Dagang District. Due to the unknown drugs she was given, she temporarily lost sight in both eyes and could not feel her lower body. When the persecutors dragged Wang across the floor, she didn't even know that her shoes had come off.
Ma Zezhen from Wuqing in Tianjin. She was a very healthy person when she was first sent to the forced labor camp. In 2001, the guards incited the inmates to forcefully give her twice a day unknown drugs.
Each time, several people pressed it and pinched their nose to pour the drugs into their mouths. They did this for two years, which caused Ma's health to deteriorate greatly. She could barely move.
Song Huilan's right foot began to rot and then fell off after being injected with poisonous drugs.
Ms. Song Huilan from Xinhua Farm, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, has been persecuted numerous times. In December 2010, she was arrested by officers from the Hengtoushan Police Station, Huachuan District, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. When Song was held in the Tangyuan District Detention Center, she was injected with unknown drugs. Soon her mind became sluggish and it was difficult for her to control the movements of her body. Her right leg turned black and began to rot. Sun also felt intense discomfort in her heart.
Song Huilan's right foot fell off
On February 23, 2011, the head of the detention center, Yan Yong, brought in several people who pinned her to the bed and handcuffed her. They quickly injected her with a whole bottle of an unknown drug using a drip. The woman immediately felt discomfort and began to roll on the floor. Song also couldn't walk.
After that, Sun lost sensation in her legs below the knees. Her body and tongue became numb and she could not walk. Song suffered from incontinence and grew weaker and weaker. Her consciousness was retarded.
In the first hours after midnight on February 28, she felt severe pain in the region of her heart and could not bear it. When the detention center doctor saw her the next day, he said that her right leg had been completely destroyed. At that time on her right leg there were big purple bubbles.
After she was released, Sun could not walk or bend her arms or legs. She lost sensation in her body. Her right foot and all her toes were black, and blood was oozing from her foot. Even touching the foot caused severe pain.
Song's right leg was deteriorating day by day. Even with a slight movement, liquid with blood began to come out of the right foot.
Her daughter and older sister took care of Sun day and night. In addition to severe pain in her right leg, she also experienced severe pain in her heart. Every second she experienced unbearable pain. On May 25, 2011, her right foot fell off her leg.
(To be continued)
Throughout history, women have been subjected to various forms of torture aimed at controlling their behavior. When you read it, a shiver will run down your spine. Women were tortured to suppress their sexuality, to silence them, or to conform to beauty standards. First of all, this was aimed at breaking the spirit of women and making them submissive to men who feared the destruction of their fragile worldview. Feminists wouldn't like that very much. Most of these torture methods were abolished centuries ago, however, some of these barbaric punishments are still practiced today.
1. Spanish donkey
The Spanish donkey, also known as the wooden horse, slowly cut the woman through her genitals. It was used in the Middle Ages, during the Spanish Inquisition. A similar device was used by the Confederates during civil war. The device was a board, the upper edge of which was sharpened wedge-shaped. The board, which was sometimes covered with spikes, was supported by two or four legs. The woman was put astride this board, which slowly cut her body, starting from the crotch. Sometimes weights were tied to the woman's legs so that the wedge-shaped edge penetrated even deeper and cut the internal organs.
2 Female circumcision maimed little girls
Female circumcision is recognized as one of the barbaric methods of torture. According to the World Health Organization, over 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone this procedure. Unlike male circumcision, there are no health benefits from female circumcision. Its sole purpose is to reduce a woman's sexual pleasure. In most cases, the procedure was performed with unsanitary instruments in dirty conditions. A young girl under the age of 15 was held by female family members. One of them took a jagged object and removed the clitoris, and sometimes the labia. In many cases, infection occurred, which often led to death.
3. Chest vise
This particularly vile torture device, also known as the "iron spider", was used on women who were accused of adultery and for single mothers. It was an instrument with two large pointed teeth, which was placed in the female breast and then pulled out the flesh. In a red-hot form, it was used to make a special mark on a woman's chest. This tool ceased to be used in the Middle Ages.
4. Masks of shame
In the Middle Ages the most in a simple way to silence a woman who always grumbles and finds fault was the so-called mask of shame. Also, this instrument of torture was used on a woman who was gossiping. At that time, gossip was feared as an invention of the devil. The first recorded evidence of the use of the mask of shame is from the 16th century. Sometimes spikes were also attached to the woman's mouth above the tongue, which caused great pain to the woman when she tried to say something. However, the torture of the mask of shame was primarily psychological - the woman was publicly humiliated when she was put out on the street in this form, and those around her cursed and spat on her.
5. Cutting a woman in half was pretty common.
The woman was hung upside down and literally sawn in half, starting with the genitals. Unlike the movies, there was no way to escape from this nightmare. This method of torture was used in the Middle Ages as a way to deliver the most pain with the least amount of effort. All that was needed for this was a saw, two people with no compassion and a very strong stomach. This torture was used on women who were accused of witchcraft, adultery or blasphemy. As a rule, during the torture, the woman was still alive and conscious. Sometimes the process took several hours before the executioners ended up cutting the entire body in half. Or they stopped at the stomach to prolong the painful death.
6The Punishment Punishment Was Used On Women Accused Of Aborting
The name of this inquisitive device speaks for itself. The pear of misery, so named for its resemblance to the aforementioned fruit, was a horrific torture method used in the Middle Ages and into the 17th century. metal tool was divided into 4 segments in the form of petals, which opened up when the lever located on the opposite side. The main victims of this device were women accused of witchcraft and abortion. The pear was inserted into the vagina and gradually opened, tearing the woman's reproductive organs and causing incredible suffering. The tool has also been applied to suspected homosexuals. It was also used against people accused of spreading heresy. It expanded until the bones of the victim's jaw broke.
7. Stone throwing is practiced to this day.
Stoning, or lapidation, is one of the most ancient and primitive methods of torture. Its essence lies in the fact that stones are thrown at a person’s head. While men are also stoned to death, women represent the vast majority of the victims of this brutal public execution in modern world. Most often, the victims of this type of execution are women accused of adultery. And sometimes even family members of the victim act as executioners. To date, 15 countries continue to practice stoning as a form of punishment, including Nigeria, Sudan, Iran and Pakistan.
8 Sexual Torture And Abuse Has Been Used Around The World
Rape has been used as a means of torture throughout history. For example, during the Nanjing Massacre Japanese soldiers raped and killed thousands Chinese women. Rape is also used as a method to extract confessions from prisoners. Amnestey International found that rape is "commonly" used to force women to confess to crimes in Mexican prisons. Rape is probably the oldest and most enduring method of torturing women that exists.
9. Burning at the stake
Burning at the stake was the classic form of capital punishment reserved for women suspected of witchcraft, treason, and heresy. (Men accused of heresy or treason were usually executed by hanging or quartering.) Burning women was commonly popular in England during the 15th and 18th centuries, but contrary to popular belief, it was not used in the Salem Weda hunt. If a victim sentenced to death by incineration was not lucky enough to pass out from inhaled smoke, they would die. painful death feeling their skin burn and tear. Relief came only when the nerves in the skin were too damaged for the victim to no longer feel pain.
10. Corsets deformed women's bodies.
The corset has been around for about 500 years. And after all the horrors that are written about above, it does not seem to be something terrible. Many contemporary feminists argue that the corset was a device used to subdue women and was used to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy standards of beauty. The first mention of corsets dates back to 1530. However, corsets became popular in the 18th century, and were used, as in their modern version, as undergarments. Corsets restrict breathing and prolonged wearing of a corset can lead to waist deformity. It also restricts and displaces vital organs and also causes atrophy of the back muscles.
Torture in the Middle Ages was considered a legitimate way to get a confession, torture was also a popular way to punish the guilty and it was just a good way to execute. The laws of that time were not so humane and therefore no one knew such a thing as "the limits of humane treatment of prisoners", and the use of torture was not regulated by anyone. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that a confession received on the rack had no power, because it was "light torture", and they gained strength only after the use of more terrible bullying.The goal of torture was not death, but rather the goal was to inflict as much pain as possible in the longest amount of time. Many prisoners who were awaiting execution were tortured simply because no one forbade it; and in many cases the execution was part of the torture.
There are many various methods and torture devices. In Prague there is even a Museum of Medieval Torture, and today about the most "juicy".
1. Cradle of Judas.
This Italian invention is also known as the Judas Chair. And the torture on this "chair" was especially cruel.
With the help of a rope, the prisoner was forcibly seated on a "chair" in the shape of a pyramid, inserting a sharp edge into anus or vagina. The victims were subjected to intense pressure, resulting in irreparable damage. In many cases, the victim died from muscle tissue ruptures and subsequent infection. To enhance the effect, weight was added, which often led to death.
A similar device called the Spanish donkey (or Wooden horse) had similar way impact. The victims tried to balance on the triangular "horse" and were forced to transfer their entire body weight to the perineum, which rested on the corner.
2. Torture saw.
This was a form of execution in which a living person was sawn in half lengthwise or across, through the center of the body.
3. Pear of torment.
This hideous contraption was used in the Middle Ages as a torture device for women who were accused of inducing miscarriages. "Pear" was also used to punish liars, blasphemers and homosexuals. The device was inserted into one of the prisoner's orifices - the vagina for women, the anus for homosexuals, the mouth for liars and blasphemers.
The device consisted of four metal petals that slowly opened up as the torturer turned the screw. The tormentor could use it to tear the skin, or widen the hole to maximum size to cripple the victim. It rarely resulted in death, but was often a "bonus" for other tortures.
4. Breaking wheel.
Also known as "Catherine's wheel", this device was used to torture and kill prisoners in public executions.
The device, as a rule, was a wheel from a cart with radial spokes. The criminals were tied to the wheel by their limbs, previously broken with an iron club. The gaps in the wheel allowed the limbs to rotate and break. It is terrible that the time of life after the "breakdown" could be quite long, and some victims died only after a few days.
5. Iron chair.
This device was very popular. Victims were placed on a chair, which consisted of hundreds of sharp spikes, and squeezed with iron restraints, which caused the spikes to sink deep into the victim's flesh.
This could go on for hours and sometimes days. The spikes did not penetrate vital organs, and blood loss was minimal, at least until the person was pulled out of the stool. Often the torture ended in death. The iron chair was used as a psychological tool; victims often confessed when they were forced to watch other prisoners.
6. Head crusher.
Everything is pretty obvious here. The device slowly breaks the skull and facial bones. Even if the tormentor stops and does not bring the matter to death, irreparable damage will be done to the facial muscles and facial structure.
7. Torture by rats.
Yes, rats were also used for torture. There were many options, but general technique consisted of forcing a hungry rat to look for an exit through the body of the victim (usually the intestines).
To make the rats "work", the prisoners were completely immobilized, the rat was placed on its stomach and covered with a metal container, which was gradually heated. The rat began to look for a way out, which inevitably passed through the body of the victim. Gnawing through the body usually took several hours, resulting in a painful and gruesome death.
8. Coffin.
It was one of the worst tortures of the Middle Ages.
The accused were placed in a coffin cage and completely immobilized. The length of time that the offender had to spend in such a position was determined by the crime, for example, blasphemy was punishable by death i.e. there was no time limit. Victims were often put on public display, where they were teased and insulted by angry locals.
9. Chest vice.
This is a particularly vile device, also known as the Iron Spider. The vise was mainly used on women who were accused of adultery, self-abortion, heresy, blasphemy, or being witches. They were also often used during interrogations.
The device, which was often heated during torture, consisted of four "claws" that slowly and painfully tore through the chest. The instrument was placed on the woman's chest, and blood was sometimes splashed on her children. If a woman did not die, then she was mutilated for the rest of her life.
There were other ways to use this device.
10. Knee crusher.
Popular during the Inquisition, this device consisted of two serrated wooden blocks that were placed below and above the knee.
The blocks, which were held together by two large screws, moved towards each other, destroying the knee. The technique made the knees absolutely useless. The number of spikes on the blocks varied from three to twenty, often depending on the type of crime and the status of the prisoner.
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