Victim:

1.      Guo Qiong, 30, female, bank Cashier, Anhui province

2.      Wang Caiyun, 40 plus, female, a worker of Hefei Beer factory, Hefei city, Anhui province

Location of Detention and Torture:

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.      Dr. Dong, male, 40 years old, No. 4 People's Hospital of Hefei, Hefei city, Anhui province

2.      Head of Anhui Meishan Hotel, Anhui province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Leaders in Ms. Guo Qiong's work unit threatened to fire her because she refused to stop practicing Falun Gong. Under pressure from the authorities, her family members reluctantly sent her to No. 4 People's Hospital of Hefei (it is a mental hospital). As soon as the doctors in the hospital learned that she was a Falun Gong practitioner, they did not ask any other questions and forced her to stay in the hospital for treatment. She was treated as a patient with mental disease even though she was healthy. She was forcibly given injections and electric shock if she refused to take their drugs. After being injected and shocked, she lay on the ground and lost consciousness. She was forced to take their drugs 3 times a day. After swallowing the pills, she had stomach pain, and she would vomit until she started bleeding. She also felt very tired and listless.

Ms. Guo was released after 22 days in the hospital.

Threatened with the loss of every family member's job and heavy fines, Ms. Wang Caiyun's family reluctantly let her be taken to the mental hospital. The diagnosis showed she was normal, but the hospital staff still forced her to be hospitalized. They tortured her with electric shock and injections when she refused to take their drugs. After being injected, she lay on the ground and lost consciousness. Ms. Wang was forced to stay at the hospital for more than 30 days.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; location= Anhui, Hefei