Victim:

Zhang Wuying, an instructor of Changzhou city Normal Institute of Technology, Changzhou city, Jiangsu province

Location of the Incident:

1.      Cuizhu Police Station, Changzhou city, Jiangsu province

2.      Changzhou city Normal Institute of Technology, Jiangsu province

3.      State Appeals Office, Beijing

4.      People's Liberation Army No. 102 Mental Hospital, Jiangsu province

Perpetrators:

1.      Pei, deputy chief of the Cuizhu Police Station, Changzhou city, Jiangsu province

2.      Xu Jiexin, director at Changzhou city Normal Institute of Technology, Jiangsu province

3.      Doctors and Nurses at People's Liberation Army No. 102 Mental Hospital, Jiangsu province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Zhang Wuying and her husband were forced to give up their teaching positions in Changzhou city Normal Institute of Technology because they appealed to the authorities to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. Moreover, the police authorities from Cuizhu Police Station often detained Ms. Zhang, who was pregnant at that time, and forced her to stand throughout the entire night.

At the beginning of April 2000, Ms. Zhang and her husband went to Beijing to appeal to the higher authorities to restore the reputation of Falun Gong. At that time, Ms. Zhang was over four months pregnant. Twenty or more plainclothes policemen beat her in front of the State Appeals Office. Afterwards, Ms. Zhang and her husband were escorted back to their school, and the school officials sent them to the People's Liberation Army No. 102 Mental Hospital and detained them there with truly ill mental patients. While in her fifth month of pregnancy, the nurses in the hospital tied Ms. Zhang to a bed, injected her with unknown substances, and force-fed her other drugs.

In August 2000, Ms. Zhang was hospitalized for three days after she gave birth to her son. Each day, her work unit assigned two colleagues in the hospital to watch her. After she checked out of the hospital, the school attendants at the main entrance would not allow any people outside the school to come in to visit her (Note: in China, schools provide housing for teachers).

In October 2000, Zhang and her husband went to Shandong province, their home province. Pei, the deputy chief of the Cuizhu Police Station, led Xu Jiexin, director at their school, and six other policemen at the Changzhou Train Station to grab Ms. Zhang's baby out of her arms and to return the couple to their school. In order to prevent them from going to Beijing to appeal to the central government, both the municipal police department and the school, for surveillance purposes, assigned one person to monitor them.

Around the Chinese New Year in 2001 (late January), Ms. Zhang and her husband took their baby to Shandong province for a vacation. The municipal police department of Changzhou city ordered the local police in Shandong province to frequently visit and harass them during their daily routine. On February 28, Ms. Zhang and her husband returned to Changzhou city. Eight policemen in two police vehicles from the local police station at the Cijiao Train Station intercepted them. They were forced into the police vehicle. Both the baby's and Ms. Zhang's clothes were torn by the police. Because of the frightening experiences, the baby began having diarrhea and crying throughout the nights.

In May of 2001, police from Changzhou city kidnapped Ms. Zhang's husband and sentenced him to two years forced labor without any legal procedure. The school's security guard, Li Honggen, kept Ms. Zhang and her child under 24-hours-a-day surveillance, even when she went to buy food. The school followed orders from higher government officials to persecute Ms. Zhang. They would not allow people outside the school to help them, and interrogated whoever had any communication and interactions with them. The police also threatened Ms. Zhang, saying that once her baby turns one-year-old, they will send her to a labor camp.

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