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Victims:
1. Tan Guihua, female, 42, a worker at The Third Leather Shoe Factory of Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
2. Wei Huayu, female, an accountant from the Accounting Office of Jiaozhou, Shandong province
3. Qiu Yuaner, female, 33, an employee of an oil company, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
4. Kuang Bencui, female, 48, an employee at the Third Leather Shoe Factory, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
5. Xu Yanzhong, male, 37, resident at No.4, Zhaojiayuan Village, the Fuan Liaison Office in the Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
6. Liu Zhaohong, male, 41, an employee at the Water Conservancy Office, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
Location of Detention and Torture:
The Jiaozhou city Mental Hospital, Yangzhou Road, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province. Phone: 86-532-2210349, 86-532-221-2895
Perpetrators:
1. Zhang Yuanfu, male, the Mayor of Jiaozhou city, Shandong province. Phone: 86-52-7213339
2. Liu Zuojin, the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province. Phone: 86-52-7213692
3. Liu Xuedong, the Vice-Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
4. Xu Fatian, the Vice-Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province
5. Gu Zuqiang, the Director of the police station, Jiaozhou city, Shandong province. Phone: 86-52-7212487
6. The Head of the Jiaozhou city Mental Hospital (also called Jiaozhou Psychological Recovery Center), Jiaozhou city, Shandong province.
A Brief Report of the Incident:
Some Falun Gong practitioners in Jiaozhou city of Shandong province went to Beijing to appeal the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. The local political and legal committee directed the police department to incarcerate them in the Jiaozhou city Mental Hospital in Jiaozhou city. (The name of the hospital has been changed to “Psychological Rehabilitation Center,” with only mental patients treated there.) The Falun Gong practitioners were tortured in the mental hospital. This torture included forced injections and drugs.
On September 12, 1999, after Ms. Tan Guihua went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong, some officers from her work unit and the Politics and Law Commission broke into her home and took her to the mental hospital. The hospital had already prepared a large dose of drugs to inject her with and planned to give Ms. Tan the shot as soon as she arrived. They held her down and gave her the injection. In only a few seconds, she began to feel faint and sick. Her heart started to beat so fast that it felt like it was about to explode. A female doctor asked her every day whether she would continue to practice Falun Gong. Because Ms. Tan always said yes, the nurse shocked Ms. Tan with electric needles. She was shocked a total of 7 times.
She was also force-fed drugs, and given injections, three times a day. The nurse decided to try a new injection whose effects would last for more than one month so that she did not need to give Ms. Tan daily injections. After that injection, her menstruation stopped, her eyeballs could not move and her actions and reaction time became very slow. A few days later, they added another drug to the injection. She started to shake violently all over and could not even hold a bowl. She was tortured like this for 20 days. When her family members picked her up, she was very muddleheaded and could not see things clearly. She lost her memory. Her whole body became swollen. Her eyes looked dull. Her reactions continued to be slow and it took long time for her to say a word.
In July 2000, Ms. Wei Huayu was detained in the mental hospital for four months because she went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. In March 2001, she went to Beijing to appeal again. After she was escorted back from Beijing to Jiaozhou city, she was detained in the mental hospital. She is still there.
In February 2000, Ms. Qiu Yuaner was detained in the mental hospital for two months for going to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong.
On February 14, 2000, Ms. Kuang Bencui went to Tiananmen Square to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested and sent to the mental hospital of Jiaozhou city. For two months, Ms. Kuang was treated like a mental patient. She was forced to take drugs and have injections. Two men would grab her arms, while one pinched her nose. They then drove a chopstick between her teeth and force-fed her the drugs. Ms. Kuang was force-fed drugs three times a day with the dosage increasing from one tablet to six tablets at a time. She was detained in the mental hospital for two months and then released to her family members.
On April 25, 2000, Mr. Xu Yanzhong was sent to the Jiaozhou city Mental Hospital in Jiaozhou city for forced treatment. Because he refused to accept the treatment, several people tied him down and forced him to take drugs and have injections. Mr. Xu suffered unimaginable physical and mental mistreatment. After the injections, he suffered weakness all over his body, had difficulty opening his eyes, was nervous and agitated, and was unable to maintain his balance while standing.
On May 13, 2000, Mr. Liu Zhaohong went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and was confined in the mental hospital after he was escorted back to Jiaozhou city.
Related News Reports and Documents:
1. Amnesty International, CHINA: The crackdown on Falun Gong and other so-called “heretical organizations”
http://www.amnesty.ca/library/asa171100-6.htm
2. 2000 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom: China
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/irf_china.html type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Group, Psychiatric; location= Shandong, Jiaozhou |
