Victims:

1.      Yan Haixia, female, 26, a clerk at the Shandong Meteorology Bureau, Jinan city, Shandong province

2.      Cheng Weihong, female, resident of Yanshan district, Jinan city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      The Shandong Provincial Mental Hospital, Shandong province, Tel: 86-531-8932675

2.      The Jinan Female Prison, Jinan city, Shandong province

3.      The Heping Road Police Station in Lixia district, Jinan city, Shandong province, Tel: 86-531-8932197

Perpetrators:

1.      Doctors and nurses at the Shandong Provincial Mental Hospital, Shandong province

2.      Officials of the Jinan Female Prison, Jinan city, Shandong province

3.      Police from the Heping Road Police Station in Lixia district, Jinan city, Shandong province

Brief Report of the Incident:

In April 2000, Ms. Yan Haixia went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. As a result, she was arrested and sentenced to 3 years of hard labor. When she was forbidden to practice Falun Gong at the labor camp, Yan went on a hunger strike for 4 days. She was then sent to the Shandong Provincial Mental Hospital where she was forced to take drugs and given injections that caused mental retardation and a seizure of her neck muscles. Both her mental and her physical health were severely damaged. She was tormented like this in the mental hospital for about one and a half months. She is now being held at the Jinan Female Prison.

In April 2000, Ms. Cheng Weihong went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. As a result, she was arrested and forcibly detained at the Shandong Provincial Mental Hospital by the police from Heping Road Police Station in Lixia district. In the mental hospital, she was forced to take drugs and given injections that caused mental retardation and seizure of her neck muscles.

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