Victims:

1.      Hu Fanxia, female, a resident of Xiawei Town, Yishui County, Shandong province

2.      Liu Jingfen, female, a resident of Zhuge Town, Yishui County, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

Yishui County People's Hospital, Yishui County, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Staff of the Psychiatry Section of Yishui County People's Hospital, Yishui County, Shandong province

2.      Ruan Bo, staff member of a brainwashing class in Yishui County, Shandong province

3.      Hao Guijin, staff member of a brainwashing class in Yishui County, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Ms. Hu Fanxia and Ms. Liu Jingfen were arrested and put into a brainwashing class for practicing Falun Gong. Ms. Hu Fanxia and four other practitioners in the class went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. They were sent to the Psychiatry Section of the Yishui County People's Hospital for so-called electrotherapy. People could smell the stench of burnt flesh and skin when they received the “electrotherapy.” Some of them were shocked with electricity until they fainted on the spot.

In November 2000 after back to the brainwashing class, Ms. Hu Fanxia became extremely weak because of the torture. She was still beaten brutally for not giving up Falun Gong. One morning, Ruan Bo, Hao Guijin and some others from the brainwashing class made her lie flat on the ground, rolled up her trousers, sweater and underwear and together they cruelly used long bamboo strips from a broom to whip her for the whole day. They took turns. Hu Fanxia's legs and back were already black and blue, and she was unable to move on her own. In the rainy and cold evening they dragged her out of the room for a cruel beating again. When they became too tired to go on, they threw several buckets of cold water at her. At that time, other practitioners came up to assist her, but were stopped by Ruan Bo and Hao Guijin. Ms. Hu lay in the mud for a long time before the thugs let the other practitioners carry her into the room.

As the old wounds had not healed before Hu sustained new wounds, the flesh on her legs and back festered and in some places stuck to her clothes. Her muscles were so swollen that her trousers could not be taken off when she tried to change her clothes. She tried to use scissors to cut off the trousers but gave up as she found it too unbearably painful. Hao Guijin rushed to the room when he learned about this. He brutally tore her trousers off, along with the flesh. Ms. Hu Fanxia felt such sharp pain that she let out a heart-splitting and blood-curdling scream. After this, Ms. Hu could not move for over a week. She could not lie on her back and could only lie flat on the straw mat. Because of not giving up Falun Gong, Ruan Bo and Hao Guijin often kicked and stepped on her and peeled off the scabs of her wounds to torture her and force her to give up Falun Gong cultivation. The local residents near the brainwashing class frequently heard the practitioners' miserable screams.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; location= Shandong, Yishui