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Torture was widely documented ... Inside the solitary confinement cells, there was water and mud on the concrete floors. Each had a single metal bowl for food. Excrement lay around.

When an ear of corn slammed against Donald Faivre’s head, the Illinois farm boy stormed away from harvest and tumbled 6,400 miles from his grain fields along a surreal chain of firing squads ...

Houdini would escape from handcuffs, chains, safes, jail cells, burial underground, ropes slung from skyscrapers, and most famously, the Chinese Water Torture Cell. One pound from every ticket sold ...

As far back as the Ancient Laws of China, the death penalty has been established ... (murder of a parent): the condemned was submersed in water in a sack, which also contained a dog, a rooster ...

Over the next 20 years, Houdini would bring his most sensational escapes to the UK, including the infamous Chinese Water Torture Cell. Here, he was suspended upside down and shackled in a glass ...

Potentially the world's largest infrastructure project, China’s South-North Water Transfer project spans 2,700 miles and ...

Chinese authorities have allegedly detained over 20 Tibetans, with village leader Gonpo Namgyal succumbing to torture-related injuries after months of mistreatment. This crackdown, targeting the ...

More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the ...

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