Historical events in the Japanese-Russian Prison in Lushun

This prison, built successively by two imperialist countries in a third country, is ironclad evidence of the imperialist powers’ aggression against China and their anti-humanity. Its barbarity and cruelty are rare in the world.

Chinese prisoners suffered the most severe persecution here. According to prison regulations, Japanese prisoners can eat white rice in prison, Korean prisoners can eat millet, and Chinese prisoners can only eat moldy sorghum rice in prison. Chinese people who eat white rice can immediately be punished as "economic offenders".

The execution room on the second floor of the prison is filled with hanging bars, tiger benches and other torture instruments. During the execution, the victim was stripped naked and placed prone on a "fire"-shaped tiger bench. His limbs were tightened with leather belts, and the guards beat him with bamboo sticks filled with lead bars. This was called "whipping." The "Kanto State Penal Code" at that time stipulated that flogging could only be used to severely beat Chinese people, not Japanese prisoners.

Every day, imprisoned people have to go through the "ghost gate" - the examination room twice. The prisoners first take off their prison clothes, then step over the wooden bars with their hands raised naked, put on work clothes, and then go to work in various workshops in the prison. After get off work, he would step naked over the wooden bar and change into prison uniform.

According to the 1936 Japan "Penal Affairs Summary", in this year alone, the profits extracted from prison labor were as high as 86,000 yen. At that time, 86,000 yen could buy 40,000 bags of flour.

There is a two-story hanging chamber in the northeast corner of the prison. During the execution, the executioner covered the face of the victim with a white cloth, forced him to sit on the trap, put a noose around his neck, and then suddenly opened the trap to hang him. The corpse was crumpled into a barrel, nailed with a lid, and then buried in the wasteland outside the prison.

North Korean patriot Ahn Jung-geun was captured and imprisoned here after he shot and killed Japanese Privy Council Speaker Itō Hirobumi and the first Commissioner in Korea at Harbin Railway Station on October 26, 1909. Died in prison on March 26, 1910.

The Japanese invaders killed countless Chinese revolutionaries and international progressives in prison. According to the confession of the former director of the prison, Tianzi Hitoshiro, the day after Japan announced its surrender, he personally directed the guards to secretly hang anti-Japanese comrades Liu Fengchuan, He Hanqing and others in the hanging chamber. The Japanese invaders also burned a large number of prison files to cover up their evil crimes. It has become an eternal mystery as to how many people with lofty ideals were killed by the Japanese invaders during their 40 years of rule in the prison.