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6. THE MOST COMMON METHODS OF TORTURE DESCRIBED IN THE CHINESE PRESS ARE SEVERE BEATINGS, USUALLY WITH THE VICTIMS BOUND OR HANDCUFFED, SUSPENSION BY THE ARMS: ASSAULTS WITH INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS ELECTRIC BATONS: WHIPPING OR STRIKING VICTIMS WITH VARIOUS OBJECTS: UNSPECIFIED FORMS OF HUMILIATING OR DEGRADING TREATMENT: AND ROUND THE CLOCK INTERROGATION.
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IN NOVEMBER 1986 ZHANG SIQING, DEPUTY CHIEF PROCURATOR OF THE SUPREME PEOPLE'S PROCURATE, WAS REPORTED TO HAVE STATED THAT THE MOST COMMON FORM OF TORTURE IN CHINA WAS TO MAKE VICTIMS STAND UP OR CROUCH ON THE FLOOR FOR HOURS ON END.
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GESHE LOBSANG WANGCHUK, A LAMA AND
A LAMA AND BUDDIST SCHOLAR IMPRISONED ON POLITICAL CHARGES IN THE TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION, IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN HELD HANDS AND FEET SHACKLED IN A MAXIMUM SECURITY CELL IN LHASA FROM SEPTEMBER 1983 UNTIL FEBRUARY 1984.
9. IN A REPORT IN MARCH 1986 IT WAS REPORTED THAT GUARDS IN GONGDELIN QUOTE RECEPTION CENTRE UNQUOTE PUNISHED RULE BREAKERS BY HANDCUFFING ONE WRIST PULLED HIGH BEHIND THE NECK TO THE OTHER FOR PERIODS FROM 24 TO 72 HOURS. VICTIMS, WHO REQUIRED ASSISTANCE FROM OTHER PRISONERS TO EAT OR DEFECATE, WERE UNABLE TO USE THEIR HANDS PROPERLY FOR SEVERAL DAYS AFTERWARDS.
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A HONG KONG BUSINESSMAN HELD IN HUANGPU DETENTION CENTRE IN 1986 PROVIDED TESTIMONY OF RECENT CONDITIONS IN THE CENTRE:
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QUOTE THE FIRST HORROR OF THE HUANGPU DETENTION CENTRE WAS SLEEPING. THIRTEEN OR 14 PRISONERS WERE CROWDED INTO A CELL ABOUT THREE SQUARE METRES IN AREA. IN THE DAYTIME THERE WAS ROOM TO SIT WITH OUR LEGS DRAWN UP, BODIES TOUCHING. BUT AT NIGHT WE WOULD BE SQUEEZED INTO TWO ROWS OF STRAIGHT BODIES, WITH THE ROWS HEAD TO HEAD SO AS TO FIT MORE TIGHTLY TOGETHER, LIKE A BOX OF FROZEN YELLOWFISH. EVEN THEN THERE MIGHT NOT BE ROOM FOR EVERYBODY. IN THAT CASE, THE GUARDS WOULD BEAT THE PRISONERS WITH BAMBOO TRUNCHEONS AND TRAMPLE THEM WITH THEIR BOOTS TO SQUEEZE THEM IN THE LINE OF SLEEPERS. THEY CALLED THIS QUOTE BAMBOO GRILL UNQUOTE. SOMETIMES EVEN THESE METHODS COULD NOT SQUEEZE MORE MEN INTO THE LIMITED SPACE. ALTHOUGH HUMAN FLESH ELASTIC IT IS NOT SPONGE TO BE PRESSED INTO ANY SIZE ONE LIKES. IN THE WINTER THE PRISONERS COULD HARDLY BREATHE. IN THE SUMMER IT WAS WORSE. EACH MAN WORE ONLY A PAIR OF PANTS, BUT HE WAS SOAKED WITH SWEAT. WHEN WE GOT UP IN THE MORNING THE CEMENT FLOOR WAS COVERED WITH A POOL OF SWEAT HALF A CENTIMETRE DEEP AND THE PRISONERS BACKSIDES WERE COVERED WITH SWOLLEN BEDSORES WHICH HURT AND FORMED SCABS THAT BOUND THEIR PANTS TO THEIR BODIES. AS SOON AS YOU STOOD UP TO USE THE TOILET THE SCABS WOULD BE COVERED
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