Victim:

1.      He Zhaoxu, male, 26, is a worker at the No. 1 Tractor Company, a resident of Luoyang city, Henan province

2.      Xiong Yuhua, female, 60's, a resident of Luoyang city, Henan province

3.      Zhang Xiang, female, 49, a resident of Yanshi city, Henan province

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      Luoyang Psychiatric Hospital, Luoyang city, Henan province

2.      Baimasi Psychiatric Hospital, Yanshi city, Henan province

Perpetrators:

1.      Niu Wenqing, Secretary of Yanshi city and the city's Committee of Politics and Law, Yanshi city, Henan province

2.      Qiao Yueqiang, a judge in Xigong Town, Luoyang city, Head of the 610 Office (Government Department established specifically to persecute Falun Gong) in Luoyang city, Henan province

3.      Li Congling, Vice Secretary of Fudian Town, Yanshi city, Henan province

4.      Zhao Zhende, Head of the village, Secretary of Communist Party of Houshi Town, Yanshi city, Henan province

5.      Zhi Yuebin, Secretary of Houshi Town Committee of Politics and Law, Houshi Town, Yanshi city, Henan province

6.      Li Zhancai, officer of 610 Office, Houshi Town, Yanshi city, Henan province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

On December 28, 2000, Mr. He Zhaoxu went to Beijing to appeal to end the persecution of Falun Gong and was later arrested by the police from the Tractor Company for which he worked. He was detained for more than one month. In January 2001, he was transferred to the Luoyang Psychiatric Hospital because he would not give up Falun Gong. During his detention at the hospital, he was injected with unknown drugs. He was forced to take various unidentified medications. He suffered from many kinds of torture because he refused to sign the “Transformation Letter” (A letter renouncing Falun Gong).

Ms. Xiong Yuhua was illegally detained twice and was sent to a psychiatric hospital for appealing to the Beijing government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was also sent to an Anti-Falun Gong Brainwashing Class twice. Since she continued to practice Falun Gong, in April 2001, she was arrested again. Her present whereabouts are unknown.

In March 2000, Ms. Zhang Xiang went to Yanshi city's Committee of Politics and Law to appeal against the illegal detention of Falun Gong practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal to the central government. She was arrested by Zhi Yuebin and Li Zhancai from Houshi town of Yanshi city and illegally detained for three days. Since she could not afford the bail of 2000 Yuan, she remained detained. Subsequently, the persecutors tortured her so severely that she became delirious. The persecutors then handcuffed her to a guardrail for several hours, before sending her to a detention center. Three days later, the officers of the town escorted her to Baimasi Psychiatric Hospital. The persecutors even ordered her to pay for all of her medical (3,800 Yuan) and transportation (100 Yuan) expenses.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; location= Henan, Luoyang; location=Henan, Yanshi