Victim:

Zhao Xuexia, female, resident of Xingtai City, Hebei Province

Location:

The No. 2 Women’s Group of the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Perpetrators:

The Officials of the No. 2 Women Group of the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Description

Ms. Zhao Xuexia was detained in the No. 2 Women’s Group of the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp for practicing Falun Gong. In the labor camp, she was tortured severely. Among other things, the guards injected her with drugs that damaged her brain. Ms. Zhao went on a hunger strike to protest the brutal treatment she was receiving. Due to this treatment, she went into a comatose state. While she was in this state, the head of No. 2 Women’s Group held her hand and signed her name to a statement giving up Falun Gong. Then, Ms. Zhao’s family members were allowed to bring her home. In April, 2002, Ms. Zhao was diagnosed with serious brain damage and pronounced very unlikely to wake up from the coma.