Victim:

Shi Pei, a female 49-year-old resident and worker in Fuyang city, Zhejiang province

Location of Detention and Torture:

The Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province

Perpetrators:

Police and staff of the Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

In August 1996, Ms. Shi Pei became the contact person for the Falun Gong practice site in Fuyang city. In May of 1998, several plainclothes policemen took Ms. Shi away from her home and demanded the names of all the Falun Gong practitioners. She was not released until after midnight.

After the government banned the Falun Gong group officially in July 1999, Ms. Shi and her husband were forced to report to the local police station about their “thoughts” every month. In May 2000, the Police Department of Fuyang city forcefully “committed” Ms. Shi to the Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou city. This hospital is a psychiatric hospital for mental patients, although Ms. Shi was healthy mentally and physically. In the hospital, the “ward” should really be called a jail cell. There was only a “bed” made of pieces of wood, covered with straw. There were no the basic necessities for living and sanitation. The staff members of the hospital, under pressure from the police, gave Shi forced injections of large doses of sedatives using a large syringe, which caused her health to deteriorate.

 In the hospital, the police did not allow her any food for a whole week, in order to prevent her from speaking of her faith in Falun Gong. On September 10, 2000, Ms. Shi died of starvation.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; location=Zhejiang , Hangzhou