The Middle Ages brought us not only legends about brave knights and beautiful maidens. In those times human life was worth nothing, so the executioners did not stand on ceremony in the methods of extracting confessions. The master of torture was a very sought-after specialist in the labor market of those times.

We don't know anything about modern methods cruel torture of prisoners, but the annals have preserved for us a lot interesting facts about the routine work of the Holy Inquisition and simple executioners around the world. Then thousands of ways were invented to make a person suffer for many days and even weeks, without letting him die. Now, entire museums are devoted to this "art", where there are exhibits of tools and bizarre machines for cruel tortures in those days.

1 Bamboo Torture

The Chinese definitely knew a lot about cruel torture. There are real legends about the methods of their executioners for many centuries. China is also the birthplace of bamboo, the fastest growing plant on our planet. The growth rate of some types of bamboo can reach up to 1 meter per day, which the cunning Chinese did not fail to take advantage of, who wanted to extract confessions from their victims, or simply punish someone for misconduct.

The victim was tied to the ground in a horizontal position so that she could not move. In the soil under the prisoner's body were bamboo sprouts, which continued to grow relentlessly upwards. In just a few hours, the stems of the plant rose so much that they began to dig into the flesh of a person, causing unimaginable suffering. The growing pain forced me to talk about anything, if only the executioners would stop the suffering of the poor fellow.

In one of the varieties of such cruel torture, the condemned was not tied to the ground, but laid on a table, under which there were already thick stems of a plant. They were sharpened to razor sharpness and waited for nature to do its job.

Modern researchers doubted that such torture could be effective, but The MythBusters tested this method of torture in their broadcast, fully confirming it.

2. Skafism or insect torture

The ancient Persians also knew a lot about entertainment. They invented a particularly cruel torture called scaphism. To "split" a person or simply execute him, all that was required was small boat or a trough and a little ingenuity.

The prisoner was undressed and tied to the bottom of the trough. To achieve the desired effect, the person was fed a mixture of milk and honey, which caused severe uncontrollable diarrhea. Honey was also smeared on the body of the victim. Further, it was only necessary to release the boat with the captive into free navigation along some musty pond or swamp under the scorching sun, where a lot of all kinds of living creatures live. The mixture of smells of fecal masses and honey attracted insects that mercilessly gnawed the body of the victim and laid their larvae in it.

Such cruel torture could last for several days. The executioners did not let the victim die, feeding her. According to some reports, one of the captives, who was subjected to scaphism, died only after 17 days.

3. Rodent torture

From hot and exotic Persia, we are again transported to China. Yes, the Chinese executioners knew a lot about their business. It was they who invented another type of the most cruel torture in the history of mankind - torture by rats.

The victim's belly was exposed and a structure was erected on it in the form of a cage without a bottom, on top of which there was a brazier for coals. Rats were put into the cage and coals were put into the brazier. The rodents, worried about the heat, had to find a way out of this situation, and the only way to escape was the victim's stomach, which the rats began to gnaw through. It is difficult to imagine what kind of torment a person experienced when he felt huge rats crawling in his stomach.

4. Iron Maiden

The Holy Inquisition cannot be without the Holy Inquisition on our list. The number of people who gave their lives at the will of the Inquisitors is unknown, but the number goes to tens of thousands.

One of the most famous instruments of cruel torture is the Iron Maiden. At the moment, historians are debating whether such a mechanism really existed in the Middle Ages, or whether it was fabricated much later, in the Enlightenment, by some dreamer. However, this does not change the fact that the Iron Maiden was used for torture.

The iron maiden was a cabinet, the walls of which were studded with spikes of various lengths. The prisoner was placed in the closet and the doors were closed, and the sharp spikes only slightly pierced his flesh. The victim had to stand still so as not to inflict additional suffering on himself. At this time, the executioner could conduct an interrogation. Eventually the prisoner would tire, his limbs numb, and one convulsive movement of his hand could turn into a collision with spikes, the pain from which made the prisoner twitch more and more. In fact, the man killed himself.

5. Bull Falarida

The history of this cruel torture and execution goes back to the time before our era, when the tyrant Falaris ordered his coppersmith to make a statue of a bull in full height from copper, which would be hollow inside.

Doors opened on the back of the bull, through which the captive was pushed inside. A fire was lit under the statue, which slowly but surely heated the entire structure, causing incredible suffering to the victim. A special grace was given by the fact that the nostrils of the bull were hollow and connected to the inner chamber, due to which the smoke that came from the captive came out through the nostrils, creating an impressive effect for the audience of those times. In addition, the dying victim screamed very actively inside, and the output was a sound similar to the roar of a bull.

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 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses vast resources to cover up its crimes, the confirmed death toll is only a small fraction of the actual 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 relentlessly persecuted 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, giving 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 bloodied 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 planks 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 whole body was covered with wounds, and internal organs were badly 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 psychological instability for the victims.

jiang, single woman, became mentally deranged after a gang rape and gave birth to a child after her release. 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.

IN 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 Provincial Women's Prison, female practitioners, including Huang Xin, were stripped of their clothes and thrown into the men's cells, and incited male prisoners on death row 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, officers from 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 encourages 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 Breasts And Private 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 perpetrators poured an aqueous solution of hot pepper into her genitals and rubbed it with a rag, causing her to become 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 to this. 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 stepped on 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 persistent 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.

IN 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 forced her to lie naked on a 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. Because of the unknown drugs she was given, she temporarily lost her sight in both eyes and did not feel lower part of your 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, there were large purple blisters on her right leg.

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 elder 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)


During the occupation of the territory of the SRSR, the Nazis constantly resorted to various kinds of torture. All torture was allowed on state level. The law also constantly increased repression against representatives of a non-Aryan nation - torture had an ideological basis.

Prisoners of war and partisans, as well as women, were subjected to the most cruel torture. An example of the inhuman torture of women by the Nazis is the actions that the Germans used against the captured underground worker Anela Chulitskaya.

The Nazis locked this girl every morning in a cell, where she was subjected to monstrous beatings. The rest of the prisoners heard her screams, which tore apart the soul. Anel was already being taken out when she lost consciousness and thrown like garbage into a common cell. The rest of the captive women tried to alleviate her pain with compresses. Anel told the prisoners that she was hung from the ceiling, pieces of skin and muscles were cut out, beaten, raped, bones were broken and water was injected under the skin.

In the end, Anel Chulitskaya was killed, last time her body was seen mutilated almost beyond recognition, her hands were cut off. her body for a long time hung on one of the walls of the corridor, as a reminder and warning.

The Germans even resorted to torture for singing in their cells. So Tamara Rusova was beaten because she sang songs in Russian.

Quite often, not only the Gestapo and the military resorted to torture. Captured women were also tortured by German women. There is information that refers to Tanya and Olga Karpinsky, who were mutilated beyond recognition by a certain Frau Boss.

Fascist torture was varied, and each of them was more inhumane than the other. Often women were not allowed to sleep for several days, even weeks. They were deprived of water, the women suffered from dehydration, and the Germans forced them to drink very salty water.

Women were very often underground, and the struggle against such actions was severely punished by the Nazis. They always tried to suppress the underground as quickly as possible, and for this they resorted to such cruel measures. Also, women worked in the rear of the Germans, obtained various information.

Basically, torture was carried out by Gestapo soldiers (Third Reich police), as well as SS soldiers (elite fighters personally subordinate to Adolf Hitler). In addition, the so-called "policemen" resorted to torture - collaborators who controlled order in the settlements.

Women suffered more than men, as they succumbed to constant sexual harassment and numerous rapes. Often the rapes were gang rapes. After such bullying, girls were often killed so as not to leave traces. In addition, they were gassed and forced to bury the corpses.

As a conclusion, we can say that fascist torture did not only concern prisoners of war and men in general. The most cruel fascists were precisely to women. Many soldiers of Nazi Germany often raped the female population of the occupied territories. The soldiers were looking for a way to "have fun". Besides, no one could stop the Nazis from doing it.

The term "inquisition" comes from the Latin. Inquisitio, meaning "interrogation, inquiry." It was widely distributed in legal sphere even before the emergence of medieval church institutions with that name, and meant the clarification of the circumstances of the case by an investigation, usually through interrogations, often with the use of force. And only over time, the Inquisition began to be understood as spiritual trials of anti-Christian heresies.

The torture of the Inquisition had hundreds of varieties. Some medieval instruments of torture have survived to this day, but most often even museum exhibits have been restored according to descriptions. Their variations are amazing. However, not only medieval Europe was famous for its cruelty.

Dilettant. media collected methods and instruments of torture both in Europe and around the world.

Chinese Bamboo Torture

The infamous way of the terrible Chinese execution all over the world. Perhaps a legend, because to this day not a single documentary evidence has survived that this torture was actually used.

Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth. Some of its Chinese varieties can grow as much as a meter in a day. Some historians believe that the deadly bamboo torture was used not only by the ancient Chinese, but also by the Japanese military during World War II.

How it works?

1) Live bamboo sprouts are sharpened with a knife to make sharp “spears”;


2) The victim is suspended horizontally, back or belly over a bed of young pointed bamboo;

3) Bamboo grows rapidly in height, pierce into the skin of the martyr and sprout through him abdominal cavity, a person dies very long and painfully.

Iron Maiden

Like torture with bamboo, many researchers consider the "iron maiden" a terrible legend. Perhaps these metal sarcophagi with sharp spikes inside only frightened the defendants, after which they confessed to anything.

The Iron Maiden was invented at the end of the 18th century, that is, already at the end of the Catholic Inquisition.

How it works?

1) The victim is stuffed into the sarcophagus and the door is closed;


2) Spikes driven into the inner walls " iron maiden» are rather short and do not pierce the victim through, but only cause pain. The investigator, as a rule, in a matter of minutes receives a confession, which the arrested person only has to sign;

3) If the prisoner shows fortitude and continues to be silent, long nails, knives and rapiers are pushed through special holes in the sarcophagus. The pain becomes simply unbearable;

4) The victim never confesses to his deed, then she was locked in a sarcophagus for a long time, where she died from blood loss;

5) In some models of the "iron maiden" spikes were provided at eye level to gouge them out.

Skafism

The name of this torture comes from the Greek "skafium", which means "trough". Skafism was popular in ancient persia. During the torture, the victim, most often a prisoner of war, was devoured alive by various insects and their larvae that were not indifferent to human flesh and blood.

The victim of "skafism" during the torture was eaten alive by insects and their larvae

How it works?

1) The prisoner is placed in a shallow trough and wrapped in chains.


2) He is force fed large quantities milk and honey, from which the victim begins a profuse diarrhea that attracts insects.

3) A prisoner, shabby, smeared with honey, is allowed to swim in a trough in a swamp, where there are many hungry creatures.

4) Insects immediately start the meal, as the main dish - the living flesh of the martyr.

Pear of suffering

This cruel tool was used to punish women who had abortions, liars and homosexuals. The device was inserted into the vagina in women or the anus in men. When the executioner turned the screw, the “petals” opened, tearing the flesh and bringing unbearable torment to the victims. Many died later from blood poisoning.

How it works?

1) A tool consisting of pointed leaf-shaped segments pear-shaped puts the client in the right hole of the body;

2) The executioner slowly turns the screw on the top of the pear, while the “leaves”-segments bloom inside the martyr, causing hellish pain;

3) After the pear is opened, the completely guilty person receives internal injuries incompatible with life and dies in terrible agony, if he has not already fallen into unconsciousness.

copper bull

The design of this death unit was developed by the ancient Greeks, or to be more precise, the coppersmith Perill, who sold his terrible bull to the Sicilian tyrant Falaris, who simply adored torturing and killing people in unusual ways.

Inside the copper statue, through a special door, they pushed a living person.

How it works?

1) The victim is closed in a hollow copper statue of a bull;

2) A fire is kindled under the belly of the bull;

3) The victim is roasted alive;

4) The structure of the bull is such that the cries of the martyr come from the mouth of the statue, like a bull's roar;

5) Jewelry and charms were made from the bones of the executed, which were sold in the bazaars and were in great demand.

rat torture

Rat torture was very popular in ancient China. However, we will consider the technique of rat punishment, developed by the leader of the 16th century Dutch Revolution, Didrik Sonoy.

Trying to escape from the heat of coals, rats gnaw their way through the body

How it works?

1) The naked martyr is laid on a table and tied;

2) Large, heavy cages with hungry rats are placed on the prisoner's stomach and chest. The bottom of the cells is opened with a special valve;

3) Hot coals are placed on top of the cages to stir up the rats;

4) Trying to escape from the heat of hot coals, rats gnaw their way through the flesh of the victim.

Cradle of Judas

The Cradle of Judas was one of the most painful torture machines in the arsenal of the Suprema - the Spanish Inquisition. The victims usually died from the infection, due to the fact that the peaked seat of the torture machine was never disinfected. The cradle of Judas, as an instrument of torture, was considered "loyal", because it did not break bones and did not tear ligaments.

How it works?

1) The victim, whose hands and feet are tied, is seated on the top of a pointed pyramid;

2) The top of the pyramid pierces the anus or vagina;

3) With the help of ropes, the victim is gradually lowered lower and lower;

4) Torture continues for several hours or even days, until the victim dies from powerlessness and pain, or from blood loss due to rupture of soft tissues.

Rack

Probably the most famous, and unsurpassed in its kind, death machine called "rack". It was first experienced around 300 CE. e. on the Christian martyr Vincent of Zaragoza.

Anyone who survived the rack could no longer use their muscles and turned into a helpless vegetable.

The survivor after the rack turned into a helpless vegetable

How it works?

1. This instrument of torture is a special bed with rollers at both ends, on which ropes were wound, holding the wrists and ankles of the victim. When the rollers rotated, the ropes stretched in opposite directions, stretching the body;

2. Ligaments in the hands and feet of the victim are stretched and torn, bones pop out of the joints.

3. Another version of the rack was also used, called strappado: it consisted of 2 pillars dug into the ground and connected by a crossbar. The interrogated person was tied with his hands behind his back and lifted by the rope tied to his hands. Sometimes a log or other weights were attached to his bound legs. At the same time, the hands of a person raised on a rack twisted back and often came out of their joints, so that the convict had to hang on twisted arms. They were on the rack from several minutes to an hour or more. This type of rack was used most often in Western Europe.

4. In Russia, a suspect raised on a rack was beaten with a whip on the back, and “applied to the fire”, that is, they drove burning brooms over the body.

5. In some cases, the executioner broke the ribs of a person hanging on a rack with red-hot tongs.

Shiri (camel cap)

A monstrous fate awaited those whom the Zhuanzhuans (the union of nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples) took into their slavery. They destroyed the memory of the slave with a terrible torture - by putting Shiri on the head of the victim. Usually this fate befell young guys captured in battles.

How it works?

1. First, the slaves shaved their heads, carefully scraping out every hair under the root.

2. The executioners slaughtered the camel and skinned its carcass, first of all, separating its heaviest, densest part.

3. Divided into pieces, it was immediately pulled in pairs over the shaved heads of the prisoners. These pieces, like a plaster, stuck around the heads of slaves. This meant putting on wide.

4. After putting on the width, the neck of the doomed was shackled in a special wooden block so that the subject could not touch his head to the ground. In this form, they were taken away from crowded places so that no one would hear their heartbreaking cries, and they were thrown there in an open field, with hands tied and feet, in the sun, without water and without food.

5. The torture lasted 5 days.

6. Only a few remained alive, and the rest died not from hunger or even from thirst, but from unbearable, inhuman torments caused by drying out, shrinking rawhide camel skin on the head. Inexorably shrinking under the rays of the scorching sun, the width squeezed, squeezing the shaved head of a slave like an iron hoop. Already on the second day, the shaved hair of the martyrs began to sprout. Coarse and straight Asian hair sometimes grew into rawhide, in most cases, finding no way out, the hair bent and again went into the scalp with its ends, causing even greater suffering. A day later, the man lost his mind. Only on the fifth day did the Zhuanzhuans come to check whether any of the prisoners had survived. If at least one of the tortured was caught alive, it was believed that the goal was achieved.

7. The one who was subjected to such a procedure either died, unable to withstand the torture, or lost his memory for life, turned into a mankurt - a slave who does not remember his past.

8. The skins of one camel were enough for five or six widths.

The cradle of Judas, as an instrument of torture, was considered "loyal"

spanish water torture

In order to the best way to perform the procedure of this torture, the accused was placed on one of the varieties of the rack or on a special large table with a rising middle part. After the victim's hands and feet were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner went to work in one of several ways. One of these methods was that the victim was forced with the help of a funnel to swallow a large number of water, then beat on the inflated and arched stomach.

Another form involved placing a rag tube down the victim's throat, through which water was slowly poured in, causing the victim to bloat and suffocate. If that wasn't enough, the tube was pulled out, causing internal damage, and then reinserted and the process repeated. Sometimes they used torture cold water. In this case, the accused lay naked on the table for hours under a jet of icy water. It is interesting to note that this kind of torture was regarded as light, and confessions obtained in this way were accepted by the court as voluntary and given to the defendants without the use of torture. Most often, these tortures were used by the Spanish Inquisition in order to knock out confessions from heretics and witches.

spanish armchair

This instrument of torture was widely used by the executioners of the Spanish Inquisition and was a chair made of iron, on which the prisoner was seated, and his legs were enclosed in stocks attached to the legs of the chair. When he was in such a completely helpless position, a brazier was placed under his feet; with hot coals, so that the legs began to slowly roast, and in order to prolong the suffering of the poor fellow, the legs were poured with oil from time to time.

The poisoner La Voisin was tortured on a Spanish armchair

Another version of the Spanish chair was often used, which was a metal throne, to which the victim was tied and a fire was made under the seat, roasting the buttocks. The well-known poisoner La Voisin was tortured on such an armchair during the famous Poisoning Case in France.

GRIDIRON (Torture by Fire Grid)

This type of torture is often mentioned in the lives of saints - real and fictional, but there is no evidence that the gridiron "survived" until the Middle Ages and had at least little circulation in Europe. It is usually described as a simple metal grate 6 feet long and two and a half wide, set horizontally on legs to allow a fire to be built underneath.

Sometimes the gridiron was made in the form of a rack in order to be able to resort to combined torture.

Saint Lawrence was martyred on a similar grid.

This torture was rarely resorted to. Firstly, it was easy enough to kill the interrogated person, and secondly, there were a lot of simpler, but no less cruel tortures.

blood eagle

One of the most ancient tortures, during which the victim was tied face down and his back was opened, the ribs were broken off at the spine and spread apart like wings. In Scandinavian legends, it is stated that during such an execution, salt was sprinkled on the wounds of the victim.

Many historians claim that this torture was used by pagans against Christians, others are sure that spouses convicted of treason were punished in this way, and still others claim that the bloody eagle is just a terrible legend.

"Catherine's Wheel"

Before tying the victim to the wheel, her limbs were broken. When rotating, the legs and arms finally broke out, bringing unbearable torment to the victim. Some died from pain shock, while others suffered for several days.

spanish donkey

A wooden log in the form of a triangle was fixed on the "legs". The naked victim was placed on top of sharp corner, which crashed right into the crotch. To make the torture more unbearable, weights were tied to the legs.

spanish boot

This is such a fastening on the leg with a metal plate, which, with each question and the subsequent refusal to answer it, as required, tightened more and more to break the bones of the person's legs. To enhance the effect, sometimes an inquisitor was connected to the torture, who hit the mount with a hammer. Often, after such torture, all the bones of the victim below the knee were crushed, and the wounded skin looked like a bag for these bones.

Quartering by horses

The victim was tied to four horses - by the arms and legs. Then the animals were allowed to run. There were no options - only death.



By modern standards, The Middle Ages is not the best period for life. Most of the people were poor, suffering from disease, their freedom dependent on wealthy landowners. And if you committed a crime and were not able to pay a fine, then you could cut off your hand, tongue, or cut out your lips ... The Middle Ages is the heyday of sophisticated torture and devices for causing terrible pain. Modern "legalized" torture is designed to inflict psychological or emotional suffering and has limited physical impact. But the devices used in the Middle Ages were really creepy. And in those days there were quite a few people who took pleasure in inventing the most terrifying contraptions.

Warning: The descriptions below are not intended for the faint of heart!

1. Impaling: a pointed stick is driven end up into the body of the victim

If you were Vlad the Impaler (better known as Dracula) in 15th century Romania, you would simply force your victims to sit on a thick, pointed stick. Then the stick was raised high, and under the influence of its own weight, the victim fell lower and lower onto the stake.

Also, the stake was stuck in chest so that its tip is located under the chin to prevent further slipping. The victim died about three days later. Thus, Vlad executed from 20,000 to 30,000 people. According to eyewitnesses, Vlad liked to watch the impalement while eating.


2. Cradle of Judas: the anus of the victim is painfully stretched, the flesh is torn off

It's entirely possible that Judas' Cradle was less sadistic than impalement, but no less creepy. The anus or vagina of the victim was placed on the end of the cradle, then with the help of ropes the person was lifted above it. The device was intended for long-term stretching of the hole or for slow fitting.

Usually the victim was completely naked, thus, humiliation was added to the torture itself, and sometimes extra weight was tied to her legs, which increased pain and hastened death. Such torture could last from several hours to several days. The device was rarely washed, so often the victim also became infected with some kind of infection.


Source 3Coffin of Torture: Birds of Prey Pecked at the Victim in a Metal Cage

The coffin of torture was used in the Middle Ages, and is often seen in films from that time (for example, in the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"). The victim was placed in a metal cage made like a human body. The executioners closed overweight people in a smaller device, or made the "coffin" a little larger than the victim's body to make her feel uncomfortable. Often the cage was hung on a tree or gallows.

Violent crimes such as heresy or blasphemy were punishable by death in such a coffin, by placing the victim in the sun and allowing birds or animals to eat their flesh. Sometimes onlookers threw stones or other objects at the victim to further increase her suffering.


4. Rack: designed to dislocate all the joints in the body of the victim

Who can fail to remember the terrifying rack, which is considered the most terrible device for medieval torture? It consists of a wooden frame with four ropes: two attached to the bottom and two tied to a handle at the top. When the executioner turned the handle, the ropes would taut, dragging the victim's arms with them, causing their bones to dislocate with a loud crunch. If the executioner continued to turn the handle (sometimes he skidded), then the limbs simply came off the body.

In the Late Middle Ages there appeared new version rearing up. Spikes were added that dug into the back of the victim as soon as she lay down on the table. When the limbs were torn off, the same thing happened with the spinal cord, thus increasing not only the physical, but also the psychological pain that came from the victim's realization that even if she managed to survive, he or she would forever lose the ability to move.


5. Breast Cutter: Painfully tears or mutilates a woman's breasts

Used as a terrible punishment for women. The chest cutter was used to inflict pain and mutilation of the chest. Commonly applied to women accused of abortion or adultery.

Red-hot tongs were placed over the bare chest of the victim, the spikes dug into the skin for a better grip. Then the executioner pulled them towards himself in order to tear off or mutilate the chest. If the victim was not killed, she was permanently mutilated, as her chest was completely torn off.

The most common version of this device was called "Spider", it was soldered to the wall. The woman's chest was attached to the tongs, the executioner pulled the victim away from the wall, while her chest was either torn off or severely mutilated. It was a very cruel punishment that often resulted in the death of the victim.


6. Pear: rips holes, displaces jawbones

This horrific device has been used to torture women who have had abortions, liars, blasphemers, and gay people. A pear-shaped instrument was thrust into one of the victim's orifices: a woman's vagina, a homosexual's anus, a liar's or blasphemer's mouth.

The device consists of four petals, which are slowly separated from each other while the executioner turned the screw at its base. At a minimum, the device tore the skin, but at maximum expansion it mutilated the opening of the victim, could displace or break the jaw bones.

Pears that have come down to us are distinguished by engraving or decorations. According to them, the executioners distinguished between anal, vaginal or oral pears. This torture rarely led to death, more often other methods of torture were used along with it.



7 Crushing Wheel: Used To Mutilate The Victim's Limbs

Also called Catherine's wheel. This device always killed the victim, but did it very slowly. The human limbs were tied to the spokes of a large wooden wheel. Then the wheel began to spin slowly, while the executioner beat the limbs with an iron hammer, crushing the bones in several places.

Once all of the victim's bones were broken, they were left to die on the wheel. Sometimes the wheel was placed on a long stick so that the birds could peck at the flesh of the still-living person. It could take two or three days before the victim died of dehydration.

Sometimes, out of pity, the executioner was ordered to deliver a blow to the victim's chest or stomach, known as coups de grâce (French for "blow of mercy"). These blows inflicted mortal wounds and led to the death of the victim.


8 Saw: saws the victim in half

The saw was the most common instrument of torture, since it could be found in almost every home, and for its use there was no need to invent complex fixtures. This is a fairly simple way to torture and kill a victim accused of witchcraft, adultery, murder, blasphemy, and even theft.

The victim was tied upside down to increase blood flow to the brain. This allowed the victim to remain conscious for as long as possible, reduced blood loss, and contributed to maximum humiliation. The torture could last for hours.

Some victims were cut in half, but most were cut only to the abdomen in order to delay the moment of death.


9. Head press: compresses the skull, crushes the teeth, gouges out the eyes

The head press was a popular instrument of torture used by the Spanish Inquisition, among others. The chin was placed on the lower crossbar, and the head was placed under the cap located at the top. The executioner slowly turned the bolt, while the beam began to put pressure on the cap. The head was slowly compressed, at first the teeth were crushed, and only after some time the victim died from excruciating pain. Some models of this device had special eye containers that were squeezed out of the victim's eye sockets.

This device was effective for knocking out confessions, since torture, at the request of the executioner, could be stretched out for an indefinite time. If the torture was stopped halfway, then irreparable damage was done to the brain, jaw or eyes.


10. Knee crusher: separated knees and other limbs

Another tool favored by the Spanish Inquisition due to its versatility is the knee crusher. This is a strong fixture made of two planks with sharp spikes. The executioner turned the handle - and the planks began to slowly shrink, penetrating the skin and crippling the bones of the knee. It rarely resulted in death, but its use left the knee completely inoperative. It has also been used for other parts of the body such as elbows, arms and even legs.

The number of spikes varied from three to twenty. Sometimes the spiked planks were pre-heated to increase the pain, or they were used with hundreds of thin needles, which penetrated the skin more slowly and were more painful.