Torture is still a routine activity practiced in Chinese
prisons. The police have regulations to exclude evidence and confessions of the
torture acts.
Relatives of the detainees said that abuse included
prisoners being electrocuted and beaten with batons. Prisoners are also deprived
of sleep and spend hours shackled and hung from their wrists.
It has been said that some prisoners were also sprayed with
chili oil on sensitive areas. They were also starved and frozen.
Human Rights Watch has interviewed families of those that
died while imprisoned. To hide the cause of the deaths, the police said that
every death that happened to the detainees were due to natural causes. This goes
against the evidence of mistreatment.
In the attempts to view full videos of the detained,
relatives were blocked.
A northern Heilongjiang police officer said, “Torture to
extract confession has become an unspoken rule, it is very common.”
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