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Real life in Zhangqiu Detention Center

When you first enter, you have to strip naked and have your whole body examined, including your anus and genitals. They are rinsed with cold water to disinfect your head, your head is shaved, and you are forced to do forced labor while sitting on a bench. Those who cannot do it are beaten, and they don’t have enough to eat every day. For the first seven days, they were forced to sit cross-legged for eight hours a day without moving, otherwise they would be beaten. They had to memorize dozens of prison rules and behavioral norms while sitting on the bench. If they couldn't recite them, they would be beaten and punished.

After sitting on the bench for a long time, the buttocks will be very painful. Many people will leave black marks on their buttocks after they come out. The suspect must be absolutely obedient and dare not move casually. There is no freedom at all in the detention center. You have to be informed when you urinate or defecate, and you cannot go to the toilet without permission. Everyone had to do forced labor, more than 10 to 12 hours a day, and would be beaten if they couldn't finish the work. More than 20 people lived together, and they urinated and defecated in the cell. The stench was overwhelming. Generally engaged in lighters, leather bags, and handicraft processing. If you can't finish the workload, you will be punished. You have to work hard to finish it. You are afraid of being beaten. You don't have enough to eat. Every day you have to eat yellow aged grain and cook cabbage. The conditions are very poor.

Anyway, being in the detention center is very uncomfortable. If you violate the prison rules and make mistakes, you will be put in solitary confinement, spanked, and beaten with a rubber stick. Some prisoners are beaten until they cry and howl. Every day, prisoners have to shout a report when they go to the toilet. They can only go after approval. He didn't have enough to eat every day, and he had to be handcuffed and taken to the interrogation room for interrogation.