Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, October 23, 2009 3:42 PM
A man of foreign nationality who has spent the last seven months in jail has sent www.danwei.com the description of his experience in the detention center No. 1 in Beijing.
" If I was a Chinese and a foreigner, everything would be solved at the district level, and the case would be treated in a less serious generally is treated as a municipal level.
All other inmates had to serve life sentences or death sentences and was certainly not a place where people could relax. It was the prison where he experienced the new technology for lethal injection.
Fortunately, in China, foreigners were sent to a section, where there were white-collar high-level, which is certainly a category better than murderers, rapists and cannibals, in other sections of the prison inmates.
Many of the detainees with whom the Chinese came in contact, had studied in college and had occupied many important positions. The financial director of Gome (the second most large chain of electrical appliances in China) was in my cell, Huang Guangyu its CEO (formerly the richest man in China) was in the "hall".
The room, or "cell" was 25 meters x 15 meters in size, and there were between 12 and 14 detainees.
what we called "the Board" methodological filled the room: one axis that estendendeva elevated from wall to wall. Axis on which we will sit during the day and sleep at night.
The bathroom in the cell consisted of a Turkish vessel, a valve (without sink) and another cock up in the showers at night. The wall between the bathroom and the room was transparent, so everyone could see what was happening in the other room. With the time you could also get used ... Boil drinking water was available twice a day, in the room through a special tap.
The life of every day was just a boring routine that dragged on throughout the week.
Here's the schedule.
06:30 Alarm. Breakfast (annaquato powdered milk, a loaf of bread, one egg every two days)
07:00 clean the room. From the first day I was assigned to the bathroom, and even though I had many opportunities to "change" to the floor or other assignments, I decided to stick with what had become familiar. Two of we were responsible for the bathroom, so I cleaned one day and one no, three times a day. Stayed with the 'job for so long that I became known as the boss "in the bathroom" or "WC Control Officer." (Something for my resume ... and yes, I used a toothbrush to scrub the toilet, but not mine ...)
7:30 sit on the "advice". This is the main activity in every prison in China, one of the classic Chinese soap operas and films. The "advice" goes the entire length of the room, and we were forced to sit on the edge for most of the day. Sitting too far forward or too far back, and even it was forbidden to cross your legs (especially if the officer on duty was an asshole or was in a bad mood). The
allowed to get up and move to use the bathroom, get water, get a book, etc. was allowed only to a person at a time. Thus, most of the time I spent in chatting with other people or read a book. Being seated for so long, at the beginning caused me back pain, but then we did the usual, or just my back became stronger.
10:30 lunch time! For the last three months of my incarceration, what was needed every single day of the week the convent, were boiled potatoes.
Usually a single vegetable Boiled was the pattern for almost all meals, which once a month were matched pieces of beef. Each meal also included bread steam, which is generally avoided and the laughter came for lunch every second day. After lunch we had one hour of time to lie down somewhere.
12:00 siesta time, a Chinese tradition.
13:30 Waking up from nap. Sitting on the axis for three more hours. In addition, during our afternoon session we were given 15 minutes in the "porch," where we had saved more food and clothing.
This was also known as "going outside ", Which suggests it was time to make a little lovin 'exercise. In reality it was just another small room with a large hole at the top, a window without glass, from here you could see the sky and sometimes the sun, but even with a huge stretch of the imagination could be described as a "go outside." Furthermore, "the exercise was to turn around an imaginary circle with too many people in a cramped space at probably about 0.8 / 1 meters per second.
The Monday and Friday we happened a kind of tomato soup with an egg, a very popular meal, but the bowl was small. Usually skip dinner as part of my plan to lose weight, and as soon as I finished I went to gymnastics.
After dinner we had about two hours of free time for the shower (which is also used for training). My
"program included about 75 flex (not all at once), flex your abs for 1,000 jumping jacks, some lifts for biceps and shoulders, and some squat to prevent muscle atrophy in the legs. I was training about 5 times a week. When lifting weights we used a pair of pants full of water bottles. It was very "prison" eh ...
19:00 time to watch TV broadcasts of the official state Xinwen Lianbo, that was worse than addiritura English-language channel state TV (NDT: CTTV9?) I worked for before. "Worse," since the 9 "top" stories were usually about what the 9 top leaders in the central government did that day, followed by 2 minutes of international news.
As for other sources of news, every week we had at our disposal about 3 or 4 random pages of the newspaper China Daily (in English). I learned of the death of Michael Jackson from an article that began roughly like this: "After the death of 'pop icon Michael Jackson last Thursday ..."..... I was kind of ....., are talking about that "Michael Jackson"??
After the news and the news we had to sit for 2 hours and watch the most stupid Chinese broadcasts that one can imagine. Generally, the channel on which we stopped was CCTV3, which was mostly composed of variety shows for the family comedy which I did not understand anything, concerts Mandopop (Chinese pop) in playback and patriotic songs sing in groups. Uggggh
21:30 Finally we can move again! Time to brush your teeth, get ready for bed, do stretching etc..
22:00 Now go to sleep, I was going to say "turn off the lights", but then it occurred to me that in the detention center the lights never go off the MAI.Super fluorescent spiral bulbs lit uninterruptedly 24 hours 24. So I ended up sleeping with a mask on him. The cut from a sleeve of a T-shirt.
One of the most special of life in the detention center in each cell was that there must be two people "in service" to keep watch when the other inmates slept during the afternoon nap. The night was divided into four rounds, each two hours and while the last round was 30 minutes more '.
rotated each other and after three days "in service" had a good night's rest. So it happened that I could sleep on Monday from 22 to 4 in morning, followed by my turn up at 6.30 am, the night after I stayed from 10 to 2, I would turn up at 4 and then I slept until 6:30, I slept on Wednesdays from 10 am to midnight, I would be on duty until 2 am and then I slept until 6:30, Thursday would have been free, but sometimes I would have to be "on duty" during the afternoon siesta. It was a really hard to get used to the beginning.
Finally, there was no torture, no rape in the shower. Only the good old 'psychological torture of being isolated from everyone and everything.
I was glad that we were always with me cellmates. Alone would have been much, much worse. "
In China it is estimated that there are more than 3000 foreign nationals in prison.
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