Victim:

Han Jizhen, female, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province

Location of Detention and Torture:

Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital (also called Nanjing Hospital for Brain Diseases), Nanjing city, Jiangsu province

Perpetrators:

1.      Zhang Yindong, Director of Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province. Phone: 86-25-3723-287

2.      Director of Police Department, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

On December 23, 1999, Han Jizhen went to Beijing to appeal for the end of the persecution of Falun Gong. In Tiananmen Square she was arrested and beaten. Policemen escorted her back to Nanjing city and detained her in Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital (now called Nanjing Hospital for Brain Diseases). Initially, the hospital refused to commit her, but they succumbed to the pressure from the local government. The doctor told the family that Mrs. Han Jizheng had been committed involuntarily because she insisted on practicing Falun Gong, despite the fact that she has no mental illness. While in the hospital, she was forced to receive injections and pills, which left her feeling sick and extremely weak. When family members requested her release, they were told: “We have no choice. As long as the police have brought her here, we have to medicate her.” She was released for two days for Chinese New Year and was brought back to the mental hospital by the police because she still insisted on practicing Falun Gong.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; location= Jiangsu, Nanjing