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There also have been questions about how she drafted a cable that her boss used to order the destruction of videotapes of interrogation sessions conducted at the site. Protesters disrupted the hearing shouting, "Prosecute the torturers! That said, it is impossible to know whether the CIA could have obtained the same information in another way," she wrote.
She also said there is little question that the program harmed CIA officers who participated and that it damaged U. Being in the public spotlight is new for Haspel.
She has spent more than 30 years working undercover, acquiring secret information from dead drops and at meetings in dusty back alleys of third-world capitals. Still, the year-old intelligence professional portrayed herself as a "typical middle-class American" with a "strong sense of right and wrong. While her family has deep roots there, she grew up as an Air Force brat, following her father to postings all over the world. If confirmed, she would become the first female CIA director. She joined the agency in and said she quickly discovered that she had a "knack for the nuts and bolts" of the profession.
She went to Beijing to appeal in early and was consequently sentenced to two years of forced labor by Chuxiongzhou Office. Liu was pregnant when she was sent to the labor camp. On her second day, head guard Ma beat her for doing the exercises and made her stand for three days out in the hot sun. She was forced to stand wherever the sun shone. He was detained in Daqing Prison. On July 11, , head of the No. Yang's hands behind his back and bound his legs with rope. Li Weinan hit Mr. Yang with a wooden stick and bamboo strip, starting from his back and then moving to his legs.
His whole body was bruised and bleeding from the beatings. They then took him outside with his face facing the sun. Under the scorching heat, sweat dripped onto his wounds and the pain was excruciating. Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp sometimes forced practitioners to wear thick clothing and then exposed them to the scorching sun until their skin cracked or they fainted from heatstroke. Sometimes, Wumaping Prison in Sichuan Province would strip all the clothes off the practitioners, take off their shoes, and expose them to the sun until their skin blistered.
On other occasions, practitioners were made to sit cross legged on the searing ground. Her eyes were very sensitive to light and she usually avoided straining her eyes and took care of her vision. When guard Su Dingyuan learned about her condition, she intentionally exposed her to the bright sun. Zhao groaned in pain, the guards taped her mouth with adhesive and tied her hands.
Nearly 30 practitioners were detained at the Lizhuang military camp brainwashing center. Under the scorching sun, Office agents made practitioners do military drills on the cement until they lost consciousness. The agents claimed that this was for the practitioners' health. In the brainwashing center, primary school teacher Mr. Li Shouwo was beaten and then exposed to the scorching sun for one whole day. Liang Zhifang from Huishe Town was once bound to a tree with ropes and left out in the hot sun for an entire afternoon. Bai Shuhua from Huishe Town and Ms. Song Fengqin from Guyue Town Hospital were also left out in the sun.
She lost control over her lower limbs as a result of the persecution she was put through. One of her legs was severely atrophied. Guards took away her wheelchair and crutches, forcing her to "walk" on her elbows. Both his legs were handicapped and he became extremely weak due to torture.
Scaphism, also known as the boats, is an alleged ancient Persian method of execution. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely The Persians outvie all other barbarians in the horrid cruelty of their punishments, employing tortures that are peculiarly terrible and long-drawn. The box, also known as a hot box or sweatbox, is a method of solitary confinement used in humid and arid regions as a method of punishment. Anyone placed in.
Despite his frail condition, the labor camp ordered two inmates to drag him outside and leave him in the hot sun. After several months of exposure to the hot sun, several layers his skin peeled off. The guards claimed that this exposure to the sun was "replenishing calcium. In June , Ms. Song Xiuying and a dozen other practitioners from Shouguang City, Shandong Province were made to lie on the cement in temperatures reaching 38 o C about o F. A dozen evildoers each holding a rubber hose whipped every practitioner repeatedly and kicked their thighs and toes. For about 10 days, these practitioners were baked in the sun during the day and beaten at night.
They were also not allowed to sleep or drink. Forced to Kneel on Manhole Covers in the Sun. Henan Province practitioner Mr. Chen Yueming was arrested in June He was taken to Sanmenxia City Detention Center and detained for nine months. Police interrogated him frequently using torture. Not only did they make him wear heavy shackles weighing several kilos on his hands and legs, they were also forced to wear shorts, then kneel on iron manhole covers in the scorching sun.
Several bricks were also placed on their heads.
Traffic police officer Mr. He was transferred to Xinhua Forced Labor Camp. Xu down and bound him with rope that cut into his flesh. They stepped on one side of his face, pressing it into broken brick parts. Blood kept oozing from his wounds and he was left out in the sun in the backyard. Yao Jiaxiu, and Ms. Hou Qinying together using two pairs of handcuffs. Then their legs were shackled together using two shackles weighing 38 kilos altogether. The practitioners had to walk around in circles out in the scorching sun for more than three hours. It was 40 o C about o F at the time.
She was made to kneel on hot carbon ashes and forced to hold up a cement pole weighing over 10 kilos for three days and three nights. They arrested her as well as other practitioners and took them back to the detention center.
They made the two dozen practitioners squat out in the hot sun. Four bricks were tied together and hung from their hands. The Persians outvie all other barbarians in the horrid cruelty of their punishments, employing tortures that are peculiarly terrible and long-drawn, namely the 'boats' and sewing men up in raw hides.
Four guards held his limbs on the ground and left him face up. Forced to Stand in the Sun Ms. Blood kept oozing from his wounds and he was left out in the sun in the backyard. However, the CCP has created many variations of it for use in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. His whole body was bruised and bleeding from the beatings. After a while, he was turned over so that his back was exposed. Burned by the Hot Sun Practitioner Ms.
But what is meant by the 'boats,' I must now explain for the benefit of less well informed readers. Two boats are joined together one on top of the other, with holes cut in them in such a way that the victim's head, hands, and feet only are left outside. Within these boats the man to be punished is placed lying on his back, and the boats then nailed together with bolts.
Next they pour a mixture of milk and honey into the wretched man's mouth, till he is filled to the point of nausea , smearing his face, feet, and arms with the same mixture, and so leave him exposed to the sun. This is repeated every day, the effect being that flies , wasps , and bees , attracted by the sweetness, settle on his face and all such parts of him as project outside the boats, and miserably torment and sting the wretched man.
Moreover his belly, distended as it is with milk and honey, throws off liquid excrements, and these putrefying breed swarms of worms , intestinal and of all sorts. Thus the victim lying in the boats, his flesh rotting away in his own filth and devoured by worms, dies a lingering and horrible death.
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