Victims:

1.      Sun Xiangshu, 26 years old, female, teacher at the Children and Youth Palace in Yantai city, Shandong province

2.      Li Li, Laiyang city, Shandong province

3.      Jiang Jiao, Laiyang city, Shandong province

4.      Zhang Yun, Laiyang city, Shandong province

5.      Li Ying, Laiyang city, Shandong province

6.      Wang Shiling, female, Laiyang city, Shandong province

7.      Jiang Shuling, Laiyang city, Shandong province

8.      Teng Cuijie, Laiyang city, Shandong province

9.      Jiang Shuping, Laiyang city, Shandong province

10.  Song Hui, male, Zizhong District, Yantai city, Shandong province

11.  Sun Yuhua, female, 53 years old, retired worker from the headquarters of the Yantai city Daily Sundry Goods Company. She lives at inner #2 of 10 Huanxin Rd., Zifu District, Yantai city, Shandong province

12.  Ning Shuzhi, female, employee at the Yantai Xinhua Bookstore, Yantai city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital, Laiyang city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Qu Fengjia, Director of the Children and Youth Palace in Yantai city, Shandong province

2.      Liu Shuguan, the secretary of the Yantai Communist Youth League (Ms. Sun's direct superior of the Children and Youth Palace), Yantai city, Shandong province

3.      Wang Yangning, Vice Director of the Children and Youth Palace in Yantai city, Shandong province

4.      Liu, Lumin, Vice Director of the Children and Youth Palace in Yantai city, Shandong province

5.      Wang Yong, policeman from Yantai city, Shandong province

6.      Dr. Jiang, from the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital, Laiyang city, Shandong province

7.      The Laiyang local government and police, Laiyang city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Ms. Sun Xiangshu was healthy and had no family history of mental problems. After July 1999, she was forced to quit her job because she practiced Falun Gong. Qu Fengjia, who was the person in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the Children and Youth Palace in Yantai city, tried hard to get Ms. Sun to stop practicing Falun Gong. On February 15, 2000, in order to prevent her from going to Beijing to appeal to the central government against the persecution of Falun Gong, Qu, and others authorities illegally detained her. Ms. Sun went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. Ms. Sun refused to write a statement promising not to appeal again. Therefore, on February 19, Liu Shuguan, the secretary of the Yantai Communist Youth League (Ms. Sun's direct superior at the Children and Youth Palace), directed Wang Yangning, the Vice Director of the Children and Youth Palace, a policeman named Wang Yong, and Ms. Sun's father (under pressure), to take Ms. Sun, against her will, to the Yantai Mental Hospital.

Ms. Sun Xiangshu was put into 2nd Ward of the mental hospital. Ms. Sun's routine body test results were normal. She refused any drugs and the chief nurse, together with a few other nurses, held her down on the bed, tried to feed her the drugs, but failed. While in the hospital, Wang Yanting, and Liu Lumin from her work unit, told her they would release her if she guaranteed not to appeal any more, but she still refused to do so. Mr. Jiang, a medical director of the hospital, said that they were under strong pressure from the city government. Whoever was sent there had to receive treatment until they stopped practicing Falun Gong. Because Ms. Sun refused their treatment, they gave her injections by force. Seven or eight people pulled her onto a bed. When another patient asked them not to do this, the chief nurse threatened to tie her up too. They tied Ms. Sun to the bed, gave her an injection, and fed her drugs. Ms. Sun felt very weak after their treatment, and her throat and mouth felt very dry. During the five days she was tied to the bed, she was injected with eight bottles of drugs.

Ms. Sun refused to have the additional checkups that Dr. Jiang requested, so they tied her up for another five days. The hospital refused to discharge Ms. Sun and the other Falun Gong practitioners, even though they made constant requests. Finally, the practitioners began a hunger strike. Dr. Jiang said if they agreed not to go to Beijing to appeal again, he could discharge them, but he would still need their employer's consent. He also threatened to use the electric bed to shock Ms. Sun. Because her parents made a number of strong requests, Ms. Sun was released seven days after she started her hunger strike.

Five Falun Gong practitioners from Laiyang, Li Li, Jiang Jiao, Zhang Yun, Li Ying, and Wang Shiling, were sent to the mental hospital by their local township government just because they practiced Falun Gong, and the local officials were very afraid that they would go to Beijing to appeal.

Three Falun Gong practitioners from Laiyang, Jiang Shuling, Teng Cuijie, and Jiang Shuping, were sent to the mental hospital by the local government and police because they went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution to Falun Gong. The police did not remove Ms. Jiang's handcuffs until they reached the ward.

Mr. Song Hui was sent to the mental hospital because he held a 14-day hunger strike to protest his illegal detention. In the hospital, several nursed dragged Song Hui to where he would receive an injection. After the injection, Song Hui's face became blue.

From February 28 to March 15, 2000, Ms. Sun Yuhua was detained in the 3rd Ward of Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital for 16 days because she wrote a letter to the central leadership of the Communist Party to appeal for her husband, who was illegally fired from his job because of practicing Falun Gong. In the mental hospital, her arms and legs were shackled to the bed for two days and nights. She was forced to take drugs and injections that should have been used only on the mentally ill. She and other Falun Gong practitioners detained in the mental hospital vomited after being force-fed these drugs.

Ms. Ning Shuzhi was sent to the mental hospital only because she wanted to practice Falun Gong. The hospital staff also tried to forcibly give Ms. Ning an injection but failed.

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