A lawyer in Hebei Province, northern China, used his social media, Weibo, to expose how police extracted a confession from a prisoner using horrific torture methods. Followers found the techniques cruel, and one viewer commented, “It looks like what Falun Gong has been saying is real.”
Li Zhuang, once a Beijing lawyer, posted a video on April 4 describing methods local police of Li County, Baoding City, employed to torture a victim to extract confessions. The methods included waterboarding, prying the mouth open with a screwdriver, inserting chopsticks into the urethra, and feeding with laundry detergent.
Lawyer Zhuang was framed and sentenced in 2010 after he exposed the crimes of Bo Xilai, former mayor of the southwestern megapolis of Chongqing, in persecuting local entrepreneurs and robbing people of their private assets in the name of cracking down on crime in Chongqing….