Victims:

1.      Qu Yanan, female, 46 years old, a doctor at Rongshida Clinic in Hefei city, Anhui province

2.      Three other Falun Gong Practitioners: Cao Ping, Zhu Weifu and Lin Guiyuan, from Hefei city, Anhui province

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      Yicheng Detention Center, Hefei city, Anhui province

2.      No.4 People's Hospital (a mental hospital): Yellow Mountain Road No. 316, Hefei city, Anhui province. Phone (Operator): 551-3636082, The President Office: 551-3644522, Rehabilitation Work Station Service Department: 551-3664502, Postal Code: 230022

Perpetrators:

1.      Officials of Yicheng Detention Center, Hefei city, Anhui province

2.      Dr. Li, Director Xiang and other Staff of No. 4 People's Hospital, Hefei city, Anhui province

3.      Head of Rongshida Company, Hefei city, Anhui province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Dr. Qu Yanan went to Beijing to appeal for the end of persecution to Falun Gong. She was arrested and sent to brainwashing class for 20 days, then detained in Yicheng Detention Center four times for a total of 45 days.

On May 16, 2000, the leaders of Rongshida Company came to the Yicheng Detention Center and forcibly took Dr. Qu to the No. 4 People's Hospital (it is a mental hospital). The doctors neither looked at her nor examined her. They simply admitted her and locked her up with about 40 or 50 mental patients.

As soon as Dr. Qu was admitted, Dr. Li and Director Xiang tried to give her an intravenous drip. Qu refused, so they tied her to the bed. She was stuck with needles more than ten times. They injected her with sedative drugs. They tormented her until midnight. To protest such inhuman treatment, she started a hunger strike on the second day and asked to be released. Then Dr. Li together with seven nurses force-fed her through her nose. After failing to get the tube in ten times, they force-fed her by the mouth. It took many of attempts to finish the feeding. The nurse-in-charge complained, “You were not sick, why did they have to send normal people here! It makes us exhausted everyday.” Dr. Qu was tied to the bed and was force-fed twice a day through her nose. Her nasal cavity and esophagus would bleed. Twice a day they gave her injections of sedatives. Such torture lasted for one week.

While at the mental hospital, the first word Dr. Li said to her each day when she visited the ward was, “Are you still going to practice Falun Gong? If you are, then we will continue giving you shots.” After forcibly injecting paralyzing drugs to hurt her central nervous system for more than ten days, they forced her to take “toxic” pills (a drug specifically for lunatics) twice a day. One time when they found her practicing Falun Gong they quickly tied her to the bed again. Since that day they doubled her dosage. Because of long-term effects of the drug injections, she became very fatigued. Her movements became slow, her hands shook and her vision blurred. She felt drowsy all day. One day she walked to the restroom, suddenly she felt dizzy and fell unconscious in the hallway. Because of the toxic effects of the drugs, her body became dropsical. Her waist size changed from 27 inches to 35 inches. Her whole body became deformed.

She was not released until November 22, 2000. Overall, she was locked up for six months and six days. The other Falun Gong practitioners locked up with her at the same mental hospital were: Cao Ping, Zhu Weifu and Lin Guiyuan. They experienced similar torture in the hospital.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Group, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; type=Detention Center, Yicheng Detention Center; location= Anhui, Hefei