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Security Bureau after being arrested was even more pitiless. What is
more, that person's only crime was to meet and engage in an exchange
of ideas with friends:

Next to the detention centre is an underground place where some sus-
pects are interrogated. He was ques-
tioned there in the evenings and
tortured in various ways. For example,
his hands were tied behind his back
and the interrogators would lift his
arms, pulling them up high in a
twisted and painful position behind his
back. He was given electric shocks
with electric batons. The shocks were
applied all over his body, including in
his mouth and on his penis, which
caused intense pain. The interrogators
hit him on the bones of the legs with a
wooden baton. They made him kneel
down and hit him on the thighs and the
shoulders with the baton. While tor-
tured, he was made to wear a kind of
metal helmet which came down over
his eyes. The interrogators used this
helmet to prevent fatalities, as some
prisoners cannot bear the pain of tor-
ture and try to kill themselves by
bashing their heads against the
walls. 35

Conditions in the so-called "re-edu-
cation through labor" camps that
convicted prisoners are sent to are
even worse. "Re-education" in

Some Chinese torture methods

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