Victim:

Wang Xingying, female, an employee of the Shandong province Sanhuan Lock Manufactory Corp. She lives at 77-10, No. 4 Culture Street, Zifu District, Yantai city, Shandong province.

Location of the Incident:

Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital (also called Laiyang Mental Hospital), Laiyang city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      The Head and staff of the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital, Laiyang city, Shandong province

2.      The Head of the South Street Police Station of Laiyang city, Shandong province

A Brief Description on the Incident:

Because Wang Xingying went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong, and refused to renounce Falun Gong, the local police substation told her family that she would be sentenced to forced labor for three years. After detaining her for many days in the South Street Police Station of Laiyang city, on March 2, 2000, under a great deal of pressure from the authorities, her company, and her husband, sent her to the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital at Laiyang city. The hospital has many sections where dozens of Falun Gong practitioners from places like Zifu District and Laiyang city are detained. Ms. Wang was placed on the 2nd Ward. On the second day she was there, the staff tied her to the bed. They forced her to have a transfusion of one full bottle of an unknown drug and two needle injections every day. Ms. Wang received a total of twenty bottles of transfusions and forty needle injections. Everyday she had to take twelve pills, ten of which were sleeping pills. Two nurses would watch her take the pills. Once, the staff forcibly injected electric needles on the heads of all of the Falun Gong practitioners. If she practiced the exercises, she would be tied to her bed. She was beaten, more than once, after which she could not eat; her whole body felt fatigued; both legs bent crookedly and could not be put straight; her upper eyelids drooped so that her eyes only opened halfway; her jaw lost muscle strength so she could only close her mouth halfway; and she became constipated. The worst part was that she couldn't sleep because her feet jerked uncontrollably; standing was very hard, and her legs would always shake when she was sitting or lying down. On March 30, 2000, when her husband came to pick her up, the director would not release her, but seeing her tortured and badly emaciated body, her husband insisted on taking her home. Despite her condition, the director still required her husband to buy five bottles of sleeping pills to force her to take at home. Four days after she got home, her skin turned yellow, her eyes became yellow-greenish, and she vomited. The emergency examination at the hospital showed that all the drugs she had been forced to take had seriously poisoned her liver. Her G.P.T. (i.e., glutamic-pyruvic transaminase) increased by forty more than she had before being imprisoned in the mental hospital.

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