Victim:

Chen Yujie, female, employee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Laixi Branch, Laixi city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital, Laiyang city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Li Tao, Director of the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital, Laiyang city Shandong province

2.      The Staff of the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital, Laiyang city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Ms. Chen Yujie was arrested because she went to Beijing twice, in June and July 2000, to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. The local police sent her to the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital.

The hospital director, Li Tao, told Ms. Chen: “We specialize in treating Falun Gong practitioners.” Since July of 1999, many Falun Gong practitioners had been sent there. Six were present when Ms. Chen arrived.

When Chen was sent to a ward, she saw a female practitioner in her fifties tied to a bed. The woman said, “Nurse, I need to use the restroom.” The nurse ordered, “Do so on the bed!” It happened that this practitioner had refused to receive an injection, so they had restrained her in order to give it to her. Without untying her, the nurse ordered a mental patient to place an urination pot on her bed, loosened her pants, and let her urinate into the pot, while still tied up.

The second day in the mental institute, they started to give Ms. Chen injections. The process of treatment is ten days, and they increased the drug's dose by ten to twenty times more than normal. Under the influence of the drugs, the practitioners could do nothing but eat and sleep. Their eyes' could no longer focus, attention spans weakened, and their arms and legs became weak and numb. By putting them in such a condition, the doctors destroyed Falun Gong practitioners' ability to practice the exercises. Ms. Chen was held there for 45 days.

type = Case, Psychiatric;type=Case, Women; location= Shandong, Laixi