Victim:

Ma Yanfang, female, 34, from Xingshigou Village of Darenhe Region of Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province. She was an employee of the Zhucheng Ceramics Factory, Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      Zhucheng Mental Hospital, Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province

2.      The Zhucheng Ceramics Factory, Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      The Head of the Zhucheng Ceramics Factory, Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province

2.      Ding Yixin, Vice-Director of the Zhucheng Mental Hospital, Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province

3.      The Director of the Zhucheng Mental Hospital, Zhucheng Town, Weifang city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

In October 1999, Ms. Ma Yanfang was detained on the way to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was detained in the detention center of Zhucheng Town for 30 days and fined 3,000 Yuan (The average salary of a city worker in China is 500 Yuan). She was then sent back to her factory to work under supervision.

In May 2000, Ms. Ma was detained in Beijing for appealing to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was sent back to her factory to be detained. Because she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention, the factory sent her to the Zhucheng Mental Hospital in Zhucheng Town.

Though she was healthy, she was treated like a mental patient in the mental hospital. Under direct orders from the government, the staff in the hospital injected her with drugs and forced her to take drugs orally. In September 2000, after two months of being forced to take drugs, Ms. Ma died in the hospital. Her parents were threatened by the factory not to inquire further about her death.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; type=Case, Death; location= Shandong, Weifang