Victims:

1.      Lu Dongmei, female, 33, an employee of the Luxing Real Estate Development Company, Jining city, Shandong province

2.      Qiao Xingxia, female, 40, a cutter at the Jining city Second Plastics Factory (now called Toy Factory), Jining city, Shandong province.

3.      Li Fengzhi, male, 25, an employee of the Jining Stomatological Hospital, Jining city, Shandong province

4.      Wang Jiming, male, about 41, a worker at the Jining city Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Jining city, Shandong province

5.      Shi Shuping, female, 49, a doctor at the Jining Chinese Traditional Medicine Hospital, Jining city, Shandong province

6.      Ping Yumei, female, an employee of the Toy Factory, Jining city, Shandong province

7.      Mao Qingmin, male, a worker at the Yangcun Coal Mine of Gunzhou Mineral Bureau, Gunzhou city, Shandong province

Location of Torture:

Daizhuang Mental Hospital, Jining city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Physicians include Zhang Zheng (Doctor-in-charge), Han Peng (Head of the Department), and Professor Lu, from the Daizhuang Mental Hospital, Jining city, Shandong province

2.      Head nurse, Ms. Wang, from the Daizhuang Mental Hospital, Jining city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

On September 11, 1999, because she announced in writing that she would not give up her Falun Gong cultivation practice and refused to sign a “repentance” letter to renounce Falun Gong, police officers, accompanied by doctors and nurses, took Lu Dongmei to the Jining Psychiatric Hospital. One week later, without any psychiatric examination, the hospital staff, pressured by the police department, tried to give Ms. Lu unknown drugs in pill form. She refused to take them because she was a healthy person without any physical or mental illness. Then department Head Han Peng ordered five people to hold Ms. Lu down and injected her with drugs. The doctors gave her another injection two weeks later. She was kept at the hospital for over two months. Ms. Lu described how she felt after receiving the drugs. She felt agitation, which caused her to pace around her hospital room. She found it difficult to fall asleep. She also felt weak and experienced constant leg movements when she was trying to sleep. Her eyes could not focus on any object; she could not concentrate; and one minute of time felt like a day passing by. Later, her neck and arm muscles twisted to one side. She was unable to prevent this from happening.

Due to the efforts of her family and friends, Mrs. Lu was eventually released from the hospital. She was never given any written diagnosis or record of treatment.

Qiao Xingxia was detained for publicly practicing Falun Gong. After seventeen days of detention in the Jining Detention Center, the police and her work unit pressured her family to get her to renounce Falun Dafa. On December 17, 1999, she was taken to the Daizhuang Mental Hospital against her will. While filling out the registration forms, her family had to pay a 2,000 Yuan hospitalization fee and sign an agreement for hospitalization. On her third day in the hospital, the hospital tied her to a bed and started forcibly administering drugs. During the first ten days, they administered one tablet per day, and then two tablets per day. In the end, Mrs. Qiao was detained in the hospital for 22 days.

The hospital claimed that Mrs. Qiao Xingxia was mentally ill though she underwent no examination or test. The hospital never explained their diagnosis or the treatment plan they had for her. Though she refused to take drugs because she was not sick, she was restrained, beaten, and forcibly given drugs, the name of which was unknown to either her or her family. After she was given the drugs, her mouth puckered and was dry and hot; she could hardly control her tongue. She could not stand steadily, nor could she walk. In addition, she felt agitated and she had unbearable pain all over the body. Mrs. Qiao kept kicking her legs and she erratically scratched her body. Her whole body was weak and limp after she was given the drugs. Her memory faded; she had a headache, she became lethargic, and she felt anxious.

Li Fengzhi was detained in the Daizhuang Mental Hospital for over two months for practicing Falun Gong. He could not keep his tongue inside his mouth and was gasping for breath when leaving the hospital. Now he is detained at the Wangcun Detention Center, Jinan city, Shandong province.

Wang Jiming was a worker in the Jining city Hospital for Infectious Diseases. He was detained at the Daizhuang Mental Hospital for more than a month for not giving up practicing Falun Gong.

Shi Shuping was detained at the Daizhuang Mental Hospital for practicing Falun Gong, and later was detained in the Wangcun Detention Center, Jinan city, Shandong province.

Officers from the “610 Office” (a government agency specially set up to persecute Falun Gong and with the authority to override the legal system at every level) and the police station of Jining city sent Ms. Ping to the mental hospital, just because she practiced Falun Gong.

After the Chinese government banned Falun Gong, on July 20, 1999, Mr. Mao's work unit restricted him to the security department of his work unit because he practiced Falun Gong. He was also criticized by the authorities at public meetings, and detained for half of a month. In November 1999, his work unit escorted him to the mental hospital. There he was given electric shock treatments by the hospital staff. He was also forcibly injected with drugs, which impaired his central nervous system. Because of the injection, he couldn't move his body, kept slobbering and couldn't eat by himself. He was released from the hospital six months later at the strong request of his family. Then he was illegally sent to a detention center.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Group, Psychiatric; location= Shandong, Jining