Victim:

Wu Xiaohua, female, 47 years old, an associate professor of the Environment Art Department at Anhui Civil Construction Engineering College, Hefei city, Anhui province

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      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           

2.      No. 2 unit of Anhui Female Detention Center, Anhui province

Perpetrators:

1.      Head of No 4 People's Hospital, Hefei city, Anhui province

2.      Head of Anhui Female Detention Center, Anhui province. Tel: 551-5315739?Tel of admin office?551-5312701

3.      Head of Hefei police station, Hefei city, Anhui province

4.      The security department head and section head of Anhui Civil Construction Engineering College, Hefei city, Anhui province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

In December 1999, Wu Xiaohua was detained for appealing against the persecution of Falun Gong in Beijing. Ten days later, the university forced her to attend a brainwashing class in a suburb of Hefei city.

Then the brainwashing class authorities sent her to Anhui Female Detention Center. She was brutally tortured in all sorts of ways. Three months after the detention, her family found black and blue marks all over her body when they were allowed to visit her in the detention center.

In July 2000, she was sent to a mental hospital secretly - No 4 People's Hospital of Hefei city at Anhui province without her family or the university being informed. It was discovered only when the mental hospital asked for the hospitalization fee. In the mental hospital, she was given injections and was force-fed with drugs.

In March 2001, she was released.

By the end of April, Wu Xiaohua was again arrested while working at the university. She went on a hunger strike to protest her illegal arrest. As a result, her hands and feet were tied down and she was force-fed. She was later sent to the hospital for infusion and an examination. Upon examination, it was found that her blood sugar and blood pressure were very high. Based on this, the doctor told the police that her life would be in danger if they continued to detain her in the labor camp, so she was sent home. By this time, her college had terminated her teaching privileges.

In October 2001, during the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting held in Shanghai, to avoid the international attention, Wu was placed under house arrest by security guards employed by the University. Among them were the security department head and section head from her college. She was arrested again and is currently being held in an undisclosed location.

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