Victim:

Zhu Weiying, 49, a deputy general manager of the Meishan Hotel, 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.      Zhang Jialiang, Zhu's husband, the head of the Security Department for the Hefei Municipal Committee, Hefei city, Anhui province. Home phone 551-3630632

2.      Zhang Jun, Zhu's son, 25, a driver working for the Industrial and Commercial Center, Hefei city, Anhui province

3.      Zhang Li, Zhu's daughter, 23, a broadcaster for the Hefei Municipal Committee, Hefei city, Anhui province

4.      Zhu's second sister and Zhu's second sister's husband, Hefei city, Anhui province

5.      Staff at No.4 People’s Hospital, Hefei city, Anhui province.

A Brief Report of the Incident:

On November 16, 1999, Falun Gong Practitioner Zhu Weiying went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. After she returned home, in December 1999, her son, her husband and her daughter were pressured with threats of job loss and heavy fines by the authorities if she did not go to the mental hospital and renounce her belief in Falun Gong. She was sent to the No. 4 People's Hospital (it is a mental hospital). While in the hospital, she was forced to take drugs, and the doctors forbade her to practice Falun Gong and claimed that she must give up Falun Gong, otherwise they would increase the drug dosage. If she refused to take the drugs, she would be given injections and tortured with electric shock. After being injected, she lay on the ground and lost consciousness. After being forced to take large doses of drugs, her lips trembled, and she was unable to stand; she was very pale and her whole body became bloated, and her movements and reactions became very slow. She was detained in the hospital for over 60 days.

At the beginning of March 2001, because she continued to practice Falun Gong exercises at home, her son, her husband, her second sister and second sister's husband were coerced by the authorities into returning her to the mental hospital. Her husband beat her brutally. Stepping on her neck, he claimed he would stomp her to death, and said that if she continued to practice Falun Gong he would let her die in the hospital and would never come to get her.

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