Victim:

Chen Biyu, female, a staff member of the Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province.

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      The pre-treatment unit of Fuzhou Mental Hospital, Fuzhou city, Fujian province

2.      Fuzhou Mental Hospital, Fuzhou city, Fujian province

Perpetrators:

1.      Yang Yuanwen, male, Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province

2.      Chen Jianxin, male, Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province

3.      Zheng Xuejie, Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province

4.      Lin Shouqing, Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province

5.      Zheng Ruilin Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province

6.      Zhu Caihong, Taijiang Branch of the China Industrial Commercial Bank in Fuzhou city, Fujian province

7.      Chen Yiyi, male, Police officer of Taijiang Xingang police station, Fuzhou city, Fujian province

8.      Lin Yaoping, male, doctor of The pre-treatment unit of Fuzhou Mental Hospital, Fuzhou city, Fujian province

9.      Head and doctors of Fuzhou Mental Hospital, Fuzhou city, Fujian province

A Brief Report of Incident:

In November 1999, Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Chen Biyu was arrested when she went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was then returned to her hometown, Fuzhou city and was detained in Shuitou Detention Center. In December 1999, she was detained in the Pre-treatment Unit of Fuzhou Mental Hospital and was then transferred to Fuzhou Mental Hospital. After her escape from the mental hospital, she returned to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested again and returned to Fuzhou. On January 7, 2000, she was sent directly to the mental hospital. Under instructions from the hospital authorities, the major doctor of second unit in the hospital, knowing that Ms. Chen was mentally normal, tortured her with electric needles and injected her with nerve damaging drugs, etc. She was severely tortured, which caused her to become incontinent and to lose her memory. Later, she was transferred to another hospital. She was released because she could not pay the hospital bill. When she returned to her job at the bank, they tried to force her to quit her job, but she protested such punishment as being unjust. Because of this, her two colleagues, Zheng Ruilin and Zhu Caihong betrayed her for a material benefit from the authorities and she was sent to Fuzhou Mental Hospital again. She was fired by the bank.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women;location= Fujian, Fuzhou