Victim:

Jiang Jing, female, from Chengyang Town in Qingdao city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

1.      Zhonghan Mental Hospital in Laoshan, Qingdao city, Shandong province

2.      The basement of the Chengzi Xinyuan Hotel, Qingdao city, Shandong province.

3.      Police Station of Chengyang Town, Qingdao city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Xin Luoming, from Li Village, the secretary of the Politics and Law Committee in Chengyang Town, Qingdao city, Shandong province. Tel: 532-7869826-3005

2.      Wang Jian, from Li Village, the former secretary of the Politics and Law Committee in Chengyang Town, Qingdao city, Shandong province

3.      Zhang Zhongkai, from Chengyang Town, the director of the Chengyang Town Synthetic Management Office, Chengyang Town, Qingdao city, Shandong province. Tel: 532-7868826-3038

4.      Zhang shijin, from Xiao Zaizi Village, head of the Special Group for Falun Gong Investigation in Chengyang Town, Qingdao city, Shandong province

5.      Yuan Fagang, from Zaohu Village, official of Chengyang Town Judicial Department, Chengyang Town, Qingdao city, Shandong province

6.      Doctor Ding, head of Zhonghan Mental Hospital in Laoshan, Qingdao city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

In March 2000, Ms. Jiang Jing was detained because she went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. She was detained in the basement of the Chengzi Xinyuan Hotel for over six months and suffered severe persecution. During this period of time, in order to protest against the violation of her human rights, Ms. Jiang went on a hunger strike three times for a total of twenty days, but no one paid any attention to her.

It was very dark and damp in the basement. She had neither bed nor blankets, and the police took her overcoat away as well. With only very thin clothes on, she was forced to squat (no sitting was allowed) on the icy-cold cement floor for twenty days. If she sat down for a while, the police would abuse and yell at her. She was only given a piece of pastry and a piece of preserved vegetable for a meal. She was not allowed to use water to clean herself. Confined in this dark basement, in the same room as the toilet.

In September, Jiang Jing escaped from the hotel basement, because she didn't want to endure the suffering any more. In October 2000, Jiang Jing was detained again and held at the police station for 24 hours, then put into the same hotel basement to suffer once again.

In November 2000, because of refusing to write a letter to renounce Falun Gong practice, Jiang Jing was sent to the Zhonghan Mental Hospital in Laoshan, without getting any consent from her family members.

Inside the mental hospital, the head of the hospital, Director Ding and some other medical staff members followed the town government's order and forcibly injected a drug into Jiang Jing. They also said, “The government sent you here so we cannot let you stay in comfort.”

A few minutes after the injection, Jiang Jing started to feel uneasy. Her heart began pounding faster and faster and she felt panic. Her vision became blurred and even went totally dark. Her mouth and tongue felt dry. When Jiang Jing asked the medical staff what kind of drug it was, they lied, saying that it was a sedative to help her sleep. (A medical expert revealed the truth: the government bans this drug. It was only used on rabbits in lab experiments. When used in high doses, it kills rabbits instantly.) During the next few days, Jiang Jing couldn't eat or drink and became too weak to walk, but nobody was concerned. Furthermore, regardless of her agony, they forcibly injected drugs into her body twice more. When giving the injections, one staff member said, “If you keep on practicing Falun Gong, we'll give you electric needles.” At the same time, the director of the town synthetic management office, Zhang Zhongkai, came to the mental hospital to press her to write a letter giving up Falun Gong, saying, “As soon as you finish the letter, we'll let you go right away”

This kind of physical and mental torture lasted for a month before Jiang Jing found a way to escape from the mental hospital. On that night, people from the mental hospital went to her home to search for her again and the town government also sent people to her home threatening and harassing her family. For a long period of time, Jiang Jing's health remained bad.

In July 2001, Jiang Jing was detained. She went on a hunger strike for half month and was force-fed many times. She escaped again.

In August 2001, Jiang Jing was detained again. On August 26, 2001, she was forced to jump from a fourth floor and was severely hurt with bones broken. Then she was tied to a wooden bed and beaten forcibly by Zhang Zhongkai, the director of the Chengyang Town Synthetic Management Office, from Chengyang Town. She was not sent to a hospital until September 14, 2001. The town government forced doctors in the hospital to give a fake diagnosis. Twenty-two days later, she was still handcuffed and force-fed once every five days.

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