Ms. Chen Yuqing, fifty-two years old, lived on Hedong Street, Yanling Town, Sichuan Province, and worked at the Self-employed Laborers' Association of Weiyuan County. On January 13, 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She was detained for 14 days after returning. In February 2000, the police of Chengdong Precinct of Weiyuan County forced her to attend a two-month anti-Falun Gong brainwashing session. In mid-March, during the session, her employers at the Industry and Commerce Department of Weiyuan County sent her to the Zigong Mental Hospital, but the hospital refused admit her because she had no history of mental illness or related behavior. On April 10, 2000, her employers deceived her into going to the Ziyang City Mental Hospital, Sichuan Province. Without a doctor's diagnoses, several people in the hospital physically forced her onto a patient's bed, tied her hands and body to the bed, and forced her to take a blood transfusion. She was not untied after the transfusion, even when she needed to go to the bathroom. Ms. Chen had to excrete in bed on a bedpan handled by mentally ill patients. Every day she was tied up for 16 hours, and forced to consume a handful of drugs three times a day.  The drugs and transfusion caused severe vomiting; she felt nauseous and dizzy most of the time. Both her hands and feet felt very weak, and she was unable to walk. She also lost her memory. Once, after she was untied to go to the bathroom, she fainted and collapsed from dizziness. When the mental patients were forcing her to consume the drugs, two of her front teeth were broken, and her lips were injured badly. The medication Ms. Chen was forced to take caused her whole body to suffer from edema and other problems. Her face and her eyes swelled so much that she could barely see. After writing down that she would not practice Falun Gong again, on May 11, 2000, Ms. Chen was taken home. By that time, she had not slept for even one minute in an entire week. She was suffering from constipation, both her hands and feet were stiff, and she could not move them easily. She could not even keep up with a little child who had just learned to walk.  It took her about 6 months to regain her strength.

On January 19, 2001, her employers and the police of Chengdong Police Precinct framed her by planting Falun Gong materials behind the document cabinet in her office. Ms. Chen was then sentenced without trial to one and a half years of forced-labor.