Victim:

Zhou Enguang, female, 47 years old, a doctor from Weifang city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

The Mental Illness Department of Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital, Weicheng district, Weifang city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Xu Jian, Secretary of Communist Party Committee of the Health Bureau, Weicheng district, Weifang city, Shandong province

2.      Wang Liqun, Secretary of Communist Party Committee of the Immunization Bureau, Weicheng district, Weifang city, Shandong province

3.      Liu Zhubin, Chief of the Immunization Bureau, Weicheng district, Weifang city, Shandong province

4.      Zhang Xuexian, Head and Physician-in-charge of the Mental Illness Department of Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital, Weicheng district, Weifang city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

On December 8, 1999, Mr. Xu Jian and Mr. Wang Liqun took Dr. Zhou Enguang to the mental illness ward at Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital, because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. At the hospital there was no one representing or speaking on behalf of Dr. Zhou. They demanded that, in order to avoid hospitalization, she sign a letter stating that she would not go to the Appeals Office and that she would stop practicing Falun Gong. Because she refused, Liu Zhubin signed the admission papers without her consent.

There were no admission record and no recoded diagnosis. There was no notification to Dr. Zhou about the results of any diagnosis, any treatment plan, or any drugs to be used in any treatment. There were no records of hospital procedures taken, no records of drugs given, and no record of the reactions and symptoms that followed the administration of drugs. There was no record of when Dr. Zhou was restrained, of the type of equipment used, of how long she was restrained, or of actions taken by attending medical personnel.

Dr. Zhou's family appealed many times to higher officials, including the Director of the Health Bureau of Weicheng district in Weifang city, for her release, but without success. To protest the illegal detention in the mental hospital, her family helped her to escape. Because of this, her husband was illegally detained for two days on the orders of Wang Liqun, Xu Jian and Liu Zhubin. He was locked in a room less than ten square meters in size at the mental ward of the Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital. They threatened that if he did not surrender Dr. Zhou, they would fire him from his job. Dr. Zhou had been forced to stay there for over 81 days. She was also fined more than 6000 Yuan (about a year's salary for an average urban worker in China). To avoid further persecution, she left home and became homeless.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; type=Case, Religious Intolerance; location= Shandong, Weifang