A Package to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Medical Community from China Mental Health Watch
(Clearwisdom.net) We are writing this letter because of the
ongoing psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong practitioners as well as of political
dissidents in China. China Mental Health Watch is calling on international
communities to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, which has
included physicians and other health care workers.
This persecution -- orchestrated by former Chinese president
Jiang Zemin in 1999 -- has affected one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners
and their families and has caused a huge public health problem in China. The
loss of lives due to torture is likely in the thousands. The exact number of
psychiatric casualties is unknown but we know that over one thousand have been
involuntarily admitted to psychiatric hospitals to be tortured. In addition,
thousands have suffered physically and mentally in detention centers and labor
camps, their families have suffered emotionally beyond measure, creating even
more health casualties.
According to recent reports, China, which has the largest
population in the world, has a large shortage of health care workers. The
persecution is affecting this shortage because many medical professionals have
been detained and tortured with at least 15 known physicians and health care
workers being tortured to death in labor camps (See Appendix I, II, III). In
addition, substantial finances have been misused for the purpose of persecution,
which may also be contributing to the inadequate health care system becoming one
of the biggest social problems. Equally alarming is the fact that an already
significant shortage of psychiatric beds is further exacerbated by mentally
healthy practitioners being incarcerated in mental institutions to be tortured.
In 1992, Mr. Li Hongzhi introduced to the public Falun Gong,
an ancient self-cultivation practice. Because Falun Gong is based on the
principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance", many practitioners gave
up drug and alcohol addictions, put down unhealthy or self-destructive habits,
and held themselves to a high moral standard. Dr. Yuhui Hu, an assistant
professor of the Department of Economy at Taiwan University, has been studying
medical economy for many years. According to a research report by Dr. Hu,
practicing Falun Gong can significantly extinguish unhealthy habits. 81% of
smokers who started practicing stopped smoking; 77 % achieved abstinence from
alcohol, and 85% gave up gambling.
In 1998 a group of diverse medical professionals in China
conducted a similar study. They conducted a survey of 12,731 Falun Gong
practitioners who lived in five districts in Beijing. The statistical analyses
indicated that 99.1% of practitioners showed health improvements, 58.5% were
completely cured of their previous illnesses, 80.3% had significantly improved
their physical health, and 95.5% had significantly improved their mental health.
This study indicated that Falun Gong has significant health care benefits, which
contributed to its increasing popularity and, in a matter of six years after its
introduction over 100 million people had taken up the practice.
However, in July of 1999, Jiang Zemin banned the practice and
initiated the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners seemingly out of his
jealousy of its popularity and fear of losing control over the hearts and minds
of the people. Since 1999 media and human rights organizations around the world
have continuously reported on the Chinese government's cruelty against Falun
Gong practitioners, including severe psychiatric abuses. According to incomplete
data, about 1,000 healthy Falun Gong practitioners have been forcibly sent to
mental institutions including psychiatric hospitals and drug rehabilitation
centers. Many were forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs, were tortured with
electro-shock therapy equipment, and some were tied up and force-fed for long
periods of time. At least 10 practitioners died from this type of maltreatment.
Many of these practitioners were held in hospitals for as long as two and half
years. Over 100 mental institutions in China participate in this particular form
of persecution. The abuse of psychiatry is aimed to break the practitioners'
will by destroying the capacity to think clearly, thus disenabling them to
exercise the basic human rights of freedom of thought and choice.
Psychiatric associations around the world have expressed
great concern about this abuse. In 2002, the World Psychiatric Association
(consisting of 120 countries) unanimously passed a resolution in Yokohama,
Japan, to send delegates to China to independently investigate. To date the
Chinese government has refused to give permission. Meanwhile, new cases of
psychiatric abuse continue to occur.
During the past four years, thousands of practitioners have
suffered mental abuse, harassment, discrimination, loss of employment, and
sometimes being forced into homelessness. Many have been expelled from
universities or even high schools. Their families have been forced to pay large
amounts of penalties driving them into financial bankruptcy. Female
practitioners have been gang raped, beaten and killed. Families have been broken
up and many family members have suffered the unending anguish of not knowing the
fate of their loved ones. Others face going to the morgue to identify the bodies
of their children, siblings or parents murdered by torture because the
practitioners would not renounce their beliefs. There is no age
discrimination as children have also suffered by being detained with their
mothers in detention centers and there is at least one account of a baby being
tortured to death as the mother helplessly looked on. Aging parents of
practitioners have died from mental anguish upon discovering the death of their
children or from living in fear of their own persecution.
"Brainwashing", or re-education classes are another very
cruel method of mental torture. Under the direction of Jiang Zemin's "6-10
Office" (a Gestapo-like agency established by Jiang in 1999 with the specific
task of "eradicating Falun Gong"), brainwashing classes have been established
throughout the country in provinces, cites, counties and work units. Agents
forcibly detain and kidnap large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners and use
physical torture, threats, sleep deprivation, and forcing them to watch anti-Falun
Gong programs that distort the truth or are fabricated to deceive and manipulate
their minds. A myriad of abusive physical and mental techniques are used to
impair people's thinking and judgment to force them to renounce Falun Gong and
sign statements making such renouncements. As a consequence of this systematic
persecution, many have become insane.
According to mental health experts' evaluation of Falun Gong
practitioners who have been detained and tortured or those people who have lost
their spouses, children, and relatives, the persecution has resulted in
tremendous mental trauma and some have exhibited psychiatric symptoms of
disorders such as Major Depression or Psychosis. Even after they have lived in
democratic and free societies for a time, they continue to exhibit symptoms
including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with flashbacks, recurrent memories of
the trauma, nightmares, disturbed sleep, and avoidance of possible triggers that
would bring about emotional pain. This causes significant mental health problems
and impairs normal living. According to studies of Jewish survivors of
concentration camps this kind of mental trauma can cause life-long harm.
This kind of abuse makes those who have been trained in the
medical field and also practice Falun Gong reluctant to return to China for fear
of similar persecution and the risk of losing their lives. For example, Dr.
Charles Lee, a Chinese doctor and US citizen, has been detained, beaten, and
subjected to brainwashing classes because he practices Falun Gong (See Appendix
IV).
We sincerely appreciate the WHO's contribution to improving
the world's health and prosperity. We hope the WHO can help stop this on-going,
large-scale persecution that attacks fundamental human nature and human rights
in order to protect international medical ethics. We believe the WHO and the
international medical community could have a very unique influence in raising
human treatment standards in the situation outlined above.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
China Mental Health Watch
China Mental Health Watch is a new international organization composed of
psychiatrists, physicians, lawyers, mental health professionals, hospital staff,
and victims of persecution, their families and friends in and outside China.?
This is a non-governmental organization whose purpose is to investigate and
bring to light the on-going persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, with
particular focus on the harmful effects of psychiatric abuse and psychological
torture.?This persecution unlike many others in history is aimed directly
and indirectly at the human conscience, the mind, and freedom of belief.
Ma, Zhanmei (50, Hebei) Nan, Chuyin (53, Hubei)
Zhou, Yurong (39,Xinjiang) Liu, Haibo (34,Jilin)
Piao,Shigao (60+,Jilin) Dong,Cuifan (29,Beijing)
Li, Huiwen (32,Sanxi) Xiang, Xulin (56, Hunan)
Zhang,Yunyi (30+,Bejing) Sun, Lianxia (Liaoning)
Zhu, Zongxia (51) Li, Shumin (30+,Tianjin)
Dai,Chunhua (33, Jilin) Guo,Xiumei (45 Henan)
Yu, Shuqin (Helunjinang)
Appendix II. Some Death Cases as a Result of Persecution
Case 1 Dr. Ma Zhanmei
Dr. Ma Zhanmei, a physician in her 50s and a native of
Laiyuan, Hebei Province, died in May 2003 at Baoding Forced Labor Camp in Hebei
Province as a result of being force-fed by the head of the female squad, Li
Xiuqin, the instructor Yan Qingfen, the guards, Zhang Guohong and Wuwen, and the
labor camp doctor, Du.
In the camp, in order to force Dr. Ma to give up her belief
in Falun Gong, they severely tortured her. Dr.Ma went on hunger strikes many
times to protest the illegal detention and torture. On April 23, 2003, the
eighth day of her hunger strike, the police started to force feed her.
The camp doctor, Du, developed a cruel force feeding method
whereby the police would cuff a practitioner to a chair, pull her head back and
press her body down. Then they firmly squeeze the practitioner's nose, pry open
his or her mouth with a knife, and put a folded tube into the mouth. The
practitioner's mouth would be filled with blood. It is obvious that their
purpose was not to feed, but to suffocate the practitioner, since it would be
impossible for the food to go into the stomch and would stick in the mouth.
According to practitioners who were tortured this way, they were suffering so
much pain that they wanted to die. Du would wait until the practitioner had no
strength to struggle and their heart had almost stopped beating, then firmly
pressed and released the practitioner's chest several times to let the food drop
down the throat. Du would repeat this process six or seven times. Because of the
lack of oxygen, the practitioner might develop heart failure. Du would ask, "How
do you feel? We will continue again tomorrow."
Due to this brutal force feeding torture, one day in the
beginning of May 2003, Dr.Ma rolled on the ground with pain and died. Her face
and body were so distorted that her family members could not recogize her. They
only identified her by a scar on her face. The camp refused to let the family
bring her body back home and they cremated her instead. Afterwards, the camp
strictly blocked the news. A reporter called the female squad at Baoding Forced
Labor Camp (86-312-2191039) and inquired as to the cause of Dr. Ma's death. The
head of the female squad Li Xiuqin did not deny Dr. Ma's death but refused to
tell the cause and hung up the phone. As Dr. Ma's family was planning to sue the
labor camp, an attorney told them that government orders said that lawyers
couldn't defend Falun Gong practitioners. Female practitioner Liu Junge who
witnessed how Dr. Ma was tortured to death disappeared and her whereabouts are
still unknown.
Case 2. Dr. Nan Chuyin
Dr. Nan Chuyin, a doctor and native of Zhanganmiao Village in
Meishan Area of Wanggang Town in Xishui County, Hubei Province, died at the age
of 53 as result of the persecution and torture.
Dr. Nan's family of five practices Falun Gong. Dr. Nan Chuyin
was detained three times and was sentenced to one year in a labor camp. His
younger daughter was sentenced to one and a half years in a labor camp. His son
was expelled from the Chongqing Oil Institute and was illegally detained for
several months at the Xishui Police Station. His older daughter was arrested and
detained three times and his wife was also arrested for practicing Falun Gong
exercises publicly.
On July 23 and December 25 of 1999, the police illegally
arrested and beat Dr. Nan for practicing Falun Gong exercises at Xishui Square.
Police Xia Shousong beat Dr. Nan's head with a flash light. Police officers Yang
Jian, Li Xunhua, and Gan Shitao knocked Dr. Nan onto the ground, stepped on his
neck, and kicked his head and body. Blood was all over Dr. Nan's face. While he
was detained at the No. 18 cell in Xishui First Detention Center, the police let
the inmates torture Dr. Nan. After some inmates struck Dr. Nan's abdomen, he
passed out on the ground and started to have bloody stools and abdominal edema
and also vomited blood. However, the police in the detention center pretended
that they did not know. Dr. Nan told other practitioners that he had been beaten
almost every day in his cell.
In May 2000, they illegally sentenced Dr. Nan to one year in
Huangshi Forced Labor Camp after he had been detained for 6 months. The labor
camp refused to accept him because of his age and poor health. However, in July,
the county police forcefully sent him to the fifth squad at Huangshi Forced
Labor Camp despite his poor health. On September 24, 2000, they transferred him
to Shayang Forced Labor Camp. During this one year when he was detained in the
various camps, he had been passing bloody stools and had edema from his waist
down to his feet. After he was released, he continued to pass and vomit blood.
Being a doctor, he understood his condition and told his family members that his
liver was damaged from the beating and could not be cured. Despite his
condition, the personnel from the police department and the Town of Qingquan
repeatedly forced him to write the guarantee statement. They did not allow him
to practice Falun Gong and even pressured his family. In February 2001, Dr. Nan
finally collapsed and died after vomiting a large amount of blood.
On the day of his funeral, dozens of practitioners attended,
but the police illegally interrogated them and even tried to arrest some of
them.
Case 3.
Dr. Zhou Yurong
Dr. Zhou Yurong, 39 years old, graduated from the Shihezi
Medical School in Xinjiang Province, and was a doctor at the 45th
Corps of the 3rd Division of Xinjiang Production and Construct Group.
Her ID number was 653127196302222220.
Dr. Zhou used to suffer from Myasthenia gravis. She couldn't
find a cure for her illness in modern medicine. In July 1999, she began
practicing Falun Gong and her illness was miraculously cured. In June 2000,
Yurong went to Beijing to appeal. After being arrested, she staged a hunger
strike to protest. Nine days later, she was released. In July 2001, she was
forced to leave home in order to avoid being sent to a brainwashing class. In
December 2001, Dr. Zhou again went to Beijing to appeal.
On March 15, 2002, the police from Tacheng City Police
Department arrested her and detained her at the department's detention center
since July 18. After a nearly 9-month imprisonment, Dr. Zhou who was 1.7 meters
tall and weighing 150 pounds was reduced to skin and bones weighing only 67
pounds. She lost control of her bowel and bladder, and all her teeth fell out.
It was not until November 28, when the detention center informed Dr. Zhou's
husband about her trial on December 2. On December 1, Dr. Zhou's husband brought
their 14-year-old son and rushed to Tacheng People's Hospital. In the ward, Dr.
Zhou was monitored 24 hours a day by the police. In order to avoid
responsibility, on December 2, the police even ordered Yurong's husband to carry
her to the courtroom to be tried even though she was near death. At that time,
Dr. Zhou was still very clearheaded and defended herself, "I am not guilty. I
went to appeal because Falun Gong was wronged."
At about 10:00 a.m. on December 4, Dr. Zhou received the
verdict and she was sentenced to 3 years in prison with 4 years on probation.
Dr.Zhou insisted on checking out of the hospital. So she was moved to Tacheng
Huagong Hotel where she passed away around 1:00 p.m. the same day.
Case 4. Dr. Liu Haibo
Dr. Liu Haibo, male, 34 years old, was a doctor from the
Luyuan District Hospital Computed Tomography (CT) Room in Changchun City. On the
evening of March 12, 2002, he died from torture at Kuancheng Police Branch in
Changchun City.
After July 20, 1999, Dr. Liu Haibo went to Beijing twice to
appeal for Falun Dafa. He was illegally sent to Weizigou Forced Labor Camp in
Changchun City, and was sentenced to one year of forced labor. Later he was
transferred to the Fenjin Forced Labor Camp, and then the Chaoyanggou Forced
Labor Camp in Changchun City. Because Dr. Liu was steadfast in his determination
to practice Falun Gong, he was brutally tortured and his sentence was extended
another 9 months. After being released, Liu still refused to write a statement
to quit the practice and was fired from his work.
On the evening of March 11, 2002, seven or eight police
officers from Kuancheng District Police Department raided Dr. Liu's home,
arrested him, his wife, and a visiting practitioner, and took them to the police
station. They also extorted several thousand Yuan in cash, and took other
property. At the police department, the police subjected Dr. Liu to ruthless
torture. During the interrogation, several police officers simultaneously
shocked him with electric batons, attempting to force him to give up Falun Gong.
They tortured him until 1 a.m. on March 12, 2002 when Liu's heart stopped
beating. Liu was pronounced dead upon being admitted to the 120 Emergency
Center. Afterwards, officials from the police department secretly cremated his
body and blocked the information about his death. Dr. Liu's family members
failed to find any information about him after searching for a year. To this
day, the Kuancheng District Police Department still refuses to acknowledge the
crime. They transferred one officer, Huo, who was directly involved in the
murder, to another place. Dr. Liu Haibo's family members have no place to go for
justice.
Case 5. Professor Piao Shigao
Professor Piao Shigao, male, over 60 years old,
was a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Yanbian University of Yanji
City in Jilin Province. Professor Piao was detained at Yanji Detention Center
for many months because he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to the
people. While detained he was tortured and abused. Insiders revealed that
Professor Piao was tortured at the Yanji Detention Centre until his body was
extremely weak and he died on August 21, 2002.
An authority from the Yanbian University Faculty of Medicine
acknowledged that Professor Piao died in jail and his body was cremated.
However, police from the Yanji Detention Centre said, "He died when he arrived
home." When told that the Faculty of Medicine already proved that Professor Piao
died while at the detention center, the police immediately hung up the phone.
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Case 6. Ms. Dong Cuifang
Since 1999, she had been arrested and beaten numerous times
for appealing in Beijing. Even though she had been jailed numerous times at
detention centers, this did not move her steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. During
2001 when she was at home, she was harassed many times and was finally forced to
leave her home and go to Beijing. Ms Dong Cuifang had been to Tiananmen in
Beijing many times to clarify the truth and put up banners. In 2001, Ms Dong
Cuifang was reported to the police while handing out materials and clarifying
the truth. She was illegally jailed at the Beijing Shunyi Detention Centre for
two years and was later transferred to the Beijing Female Labour Re-education
Camp at Daxing County. During her detention she was subjected to cruel tortures,
which caused her legs to swell and turn purple, and there were a lot of
purple-red blood clots below her knees. Her right shoulder muscle was torn from
her shoulder bone and there were blue and purple patches everywhere on her body.
The sight was pitiable. She was tortured to death on March 19, 2003. When she
died, her entire body was covered with visible injuries and there was even a
hole in her head.
Her parents asked the Beijing legal department medical center
to prove that Ms Dong Cuifang was murdered by the Beijing Female Labour Camp. In
the face of hard evidence, the labour camp had to admit that they were
responsible to a "certain" degree. Then they put pressure on Ms Dong's parents,
asking them to stop the lawsuit and offered a high amount of bribes. They also
gave three orders to her parents: 1. Not to be "influenced" by local
practitioners and not to be in contact with any practitioners. 2. Not to leak
news to the outside and not to tell anyone about the money they received. 3. Not
to sue again. This issue will end here.
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Case 7. Dr. Li Huiwen
Dr. Li Huiwen, male, 32 years old, was a doctor at the
Yangquan Mineral Bureau in Shanxi Province and lived at No. 8 in Unit 2, Bldg
15, Guanxiangtai, Yangquan City, Shanxi Province. On February 26, 2003, Dr. Li
died as result of torturous force-feeding at Xindian Forced Labor Camp in
Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province.
Fifty days after Dr. Li got married, the personal from
Yuangquan City Police Department and the city "610 Office" abducted him to a
brainwashing center where they tortured him because he refused to give up Falun
Gong. He was illegally sentenced to one year in Xindian Forced Labor Camp. In
February 2003, after more than 40 days of hunger strike in protesting the
persecution, Dr. Li was force-fed and died.
Case 8. Dr. Xiang Xulin
Dr. Xiang Xulin, 56 years old, a doctor lived in East Xinzhou
Street in Jin City, Hunan Province, died Heshan Prison on January 6, 2003.
On December 16, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun
Gong and to print Falun Gong related materials. He was sentenced to eight years
in prison. On January 6, 2003, he was tortured to death in the Heshan Prison.
Dr. Xiang's youngest daughter Xiang Yanzhen was illegally sentenced to three
years in prison, and his wife was illegally detained for eight months.
Investigation of local agencies including Xinzhou Police
Station indicated that these has been strictly blocking the news and afraid of
telling the cause of Dr. Xiang's death. The phone to some key agencies were
either busy or no answer. In the Town of Xinzhou(86-736-426-3352), the person
answering the phone refused to tell the cause of Dr. Xiang's death and kept
asking "why should I tell you?! What do you want to do?"
An investigator called the Tongjin City Vice Party Secretary
of Politics Law Li Jiangang(736-4222-394). Li answered the phone. Upon hearing
the inquiry of Xiang;s death, he said " not sure" and hung up the phone.
Case 9. Mr. Zhang Yunyi
In the summer of 2000, Zhang was illegally sentenced to one
year of forced labor because he distributed Falun Dafa truth-clarifying
materials. He was imprisoned in Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp and suffered
various tortures. After he was released, to avoid further persecution, he was
forced to leave home and went to Fujian Province.
In August 2002, a number of police officers suddenly broke
into Zhang and a few other Beijing practitioners' dwellings in Fuzhou City and
took them to Fujiang Province Police Bureau. According to an eyewitness, Zhang
Yunyi refused to answer any questions of the police and tried to get away by
jumping out of an open window. Unfortunately, he died as a result.
Case 10. Dr. Sun Lianxia
Dr. Sun Lianxia, female, 50 years old, was a native of Dalian
City and lived at No..8 of Building 17, 227 complex in Yongping Street in
Shahekou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. On January 16, 2001, Dr. Sun
Lianxia died as result of brutal force-feeding at Dalian City Forced Labor Camp. Dr. Sun was a doctor at Wu-Jian hospital in Dalian. She once
had several illnesses which disappeared after she started to practice Falun
Gong. She often said that Falun Gong had given her too much that could not be
described by words. In her daily life, she had been following the principle of
"truth, compassion, and tolerance. Everyone said that she was a good person.
Case 11. Ms. Zhu Zongxia
Ms. Zhu Zongxia, 51, a former employee of the Petroleum
Exploration and Production Co. Affiliated Hospital, lived on Sanli Street, Hefei
City, Anhui Province. On May 20, 2003, Ms. Zhu Zongxia was murdered at the Sanli
Street Police Station.
On April 2, 2003, the police arrested Ms. Zhu for
distributing Falun Gong materials and detained her for 15 days. On the morning
of May 20, several police again abducted her and sent her to the Sanli Street
Police Station. They beat her after she refused to give the names of other
practitioners. Around 12 p.m., Ms. Zhu was pushed from the top of a five-story
building and died from the fall.
Investigation shows that the person directly responsible for
the persecution was Su Hong, deputy chief of the Sanli Street Police Station. Su
Hong is also responsible for the persecution of many other Falun Gong
practitioners.
Case 12. Ms. Li Shumin
Ms. Li Shumin, about 30 years old, worked as the head nurse
at the Medical Center of the Second Medical College in Tianjin City. In 2001,
she was illegally detained at the 5th Squad in Banqiao Forced Labor
Camp in Tianjing City. In mid January 2003, she died after being shocked with
several electric batons by the police.
In the labor camp, the police took turns torturing her in
order to force her to give up practicing Falun Gong. They only allowed her to
sleep for one hour everyday, forced her to do extreme heavy labor, and brutally
beat her. In January 2003, the police forced the practitioners to do hard labor
running overtime. Dafa practitioners refused to work to protest. The guards
resorted to brutality to force practitioners to work. They used multiple
electrical batons to shock Ms.Li until they killed her. Her eyes remained open
when she died. Her whole body was heavily bruised with blue and dark patches.
There was heavy injury on the back of her head, yet the officials indicated that
the cause of her death was "sudden death!"
According to an eyewitness account, the prison guards took
Ms. Li and another practitioner away for interrogation. The other practitioner
was beaten and shocked until becoming unconscious and gave up the protest after
regaining consciousness. Ms. Li was beat to death at the scene. In order to
cover their crime, the police announced that Ms. Li died of a heart attack and
disallowed her family to see her body.
Case 13. Ms. Dai Chunhua
Ms. Dai Chunhua, 33 years old, lived in Lishu County, Siping
City, Jilin Province. Ms. Dai worked as a nurse in the county hospital.
On New Year's Day of 2001, Ms. Dai went to Beijing to
peacefully appeal, and as a result was arrested and escorted back home. She was
further persecuted and was forced to quit her job. In order to avoid being
illegally sent to a brainwashing class, Ms. Dai had no choice but to leave home
and move frequently to avoid arrest. Remembering that many people in her
hometown were still being deceived by slander and did not know about the truth
about Falun Gong, Ms. Dai took the risk and returned to Siping City where she
used her meager savings to make Falun Gong materials. The police set up a reward
for her arrest. Someone reported her to the police. On February 17, 2002, police
arrested Ms. Dai and sent her into the Siping City Detention Center. In order to
protest the persecution, Ms. Dai started a hunger strike. On March 9, 2002, her
family saw her body in a morgue in Siping City. Ms. Dai left her more than
70-year-old mother and an 8-year-old son.
Case 14. Dr. Yu Shuqin
Dr. Yu Shuqin, a former doctor of the County Family Planning
Bureau, went to appeal in Beijing in October 1999 and was detained and escorted
back by county policeman Zhang Yi and another policeman. On the way back, trying
to escape from her captors, she jumped off the train in Haerbing City,
Heilongjiang Province and died. The police did not give any explanation about
her death.
Appendix III: Persecution Cases
CASE 1: MR. LIN CHENGTAO
Lin Chengtao, 35 years old, was a research scientist at the
Basic Medical Science Institute of Peking Union Medical College. Because he
refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he was tortured to the point of
suffering a mental breakdown at the Beijing Tuanhe Labor Camp and has lost his
ability to live a normal life.
Lin started to practice Falun Gong in 1993. Within several
days of practicing, his symptoms from severe stomach and liver disease
disappeared. His work unit did not have to spend a cent on his medical expenses
since he practiced Falun Gong. He also tried his best to follow the principle of
Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance and take fame and personal interests
lightly. In 1998, he took part in conducting and writing "The Effects of Falun
Gong on Healing and Fitness - A Survey among Practitioners from Beijing"
Since July 20, 1999, he has been persecuted. They have held
his salary, confiscated his house, arrested, brainwashed, and tortured him. Lin,
his wife, and two-year-old daughter have become homeless. In September 2001, the
Beijing police illegally arrested and sentenced him to one and half years to the
Tuanhe Labor Camp. In the camp, in order to force him to give up Falun Gong, the
police tortured him with various means including brainwashing, locking him in
small cells, and shocking him multiple times with charges of up to 30 thousand
volts which caused him to have a mental breakdown. Tuanhe Labor Camp has been
covering up the truth and blocking the information.
Lin Chengtao's wife, Zhang Xiaojie, was an excellent music
teacher in Beijing No.1 Middle School. In 2001, she was abducted to a
brainwashing center. She never gave up the practice after undergoing two
brainwashing classes for a total of 30 days. She was sent to Beijing Female
Forced Labor Camp. Her two-year-old daughter was left behind.
Zip code of the Tuanhe Labor Camp in Daxing County, Beijing City, 102614;
Management Office: 86-10-61292590; Director Zhang Jingsheng: 86-10-61294586
Address of Institute of the Basic Medical Science Institute of Peking Union
Medical College: 5 Dongdan Santiao, East District, Beijing, 100005
President of Peking Union Medical College: 86-10-65135844
CASE 2: MS. DAN LING
Dan Ling was an Associate Professor in Embryo Teaching and
Research at the Basic Medical Science Institute of Peking Union Medical College.
She was repeatedly awarded the title of "Excellent Teacher". In July of 1999,
her work unit fired her for practicing Falun Gong. On October 13, 1999, she was
arrested by the police from the 14th Section of Beijing Police
Department along with Lin Chengtao. Later, she was forced to leave home to avoid
the persecution and we do not know her whereabouts.
CASE 3: MR. LIU XIAO
Liu Xiao was an Assistant Professor in Embryo Teaching and
Research at the Basic Medical Science Institute of Peking Union Medical College.
In July of 1999, his work unit forced him to stop teaching for practicing Falun
Gong. On October 13, 1999, he was arrested by the police from the 14th
Section of Beijing Police Department together with Lin Chengtao. In October
2000, the Security Section Chief Zhang Lie in Peking Union Medical College
illegally sent Liu to Beijing Police Department where he was detained for one
month. After he was released, his work unit fired him. Liu's wife was a doctor
at the laboratory of the Beijing Armed Police General Hospital and was forced to
retire for practicing Falun Gong in 2001.
CASE 4: MS. ZHANG JINGCHUN
Zhang Jingchun was a technician of biochemical
endonucleatidase at the Basic Medical Science Institute of Peking Union Medical
College. In 2001, her work unit fired her for practicing Falun Gong.
CASE 5: MS. WANG LAN
Wang Lan was a postgraduate student in Embryo Teaching and
Research at the Basic Medical Science Institute of Peking Union Medical College.
In September of 2002, she was arrested in Tianjin for "spreading Falun Gong
material". We do not know her whereabouts.
CASE 6: WANG GUILAN
Wang Guilan, in her 40s, a native of Shijiazhuang in Hebei
Province, was an Associate Professor in Poisoning at Hebei Medical University.
They abducted her and detained her at Shijiazhuang First Detention Center.
Wang has left home to avoid the persecution. On October 8,
2001, she sent a Falun Gong VCD to Diao Qingdi, the Party Secretary of Hebei
Third Hospital and a former cadre at Hebei Medical University. Diao gladly
accepted it and asked her to bring a book to him the next day. However, the next
day when Wang arrived, some police officers were waiting and forcefully arrested
Wang. They took Wang to a place and cruelly tortured her before sending her to
Shijiazhuang First Detention Center. Because Wang was severely injured from the
torture and had been on hunger strike without water, the detention center
transferred her to Hebei Brainwashing Center. Wang has not been cooperating with
this persecution and continued to be on hunger strike in protest.
The responsible people include:
Wu Xing, Party Secretary of Hebei
Medical University: 0311-6044121--5532
Wang Zhimin, Party Secretary of the
College of Pharmacy in Hebei Medical University: 0311-6044121-5170
Diao Qingdi, the Party Secretary of
Hebei Third Hospital: 0311-7027951-2110
CASE 7: MS. SHI XIUZHI
Shi Xiuzhi taught at the College of Pharmacy in Hebei Medical
University. On October 30, 2001, the university authority cheated her and
illegally abducted her to a brainwashing center.
CASE 8: LIU JUNHUA
Liu Junhua was a doctor and Xie Xianzhi was a teacher at
Southwestern Oil College in Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. On July 22, 1999,
the local police illegally arrested them for practicing Falun Gong. CASE 9: TWO TEACHERS
Two teachers at Xianning Medical College in Xianning, Hebei
Province were illegally detained at a brainwashing center. In 2001, at the
brainwashing center, policeman Xie from the Wenquan District Police Branch
swore, kicked, slapped, and forced them to stand for a long period of time. One
of the practitioner's head was broken. Xie yelled, "You are no more than a dog
should you die."
CASE 10: CHENG
Cheng, a teacher in Shiyan Medical School, was illegally
detained in a brainwashing center at Maojian District of Shiyan City, Hubei.
The center was started in December 2, 2000 when over 40
practitioners were detained. By July of 2001, the following Falun Gong
practitioners were still imprisoned there illegally, including Liu Mingzhi, Shao
Xianmei, Li Zhongxue, Yu Jian, Luo Chenglan, and Luo Qihua and his wife. The
practitioners were forced to pay 50 Yuan for the detention everyday. The meals
are half-cooked rice and the outer skin of vegetables barely cooked with oil.
Over 30 female practitioners were locked in an under ventilated room which was
about 30 square meter and had only one exit. The wooden floor and the quilts
were damp. They were emaciated and suffered backache and pains in the joints
from the torture. They were only allowed to use the toilet in the room at night.
During the day, requests of going to the restroom were sometimes denied. The
guards claimed "whether I allow you to go or not is my authority." The guards
took turn beating practitioners. Some of the guards said "I know you are good
people, you will not retaliate for the beating. If you were bad people, I would
be afraid of reprisal." Mei and Jiang instructed the security guards to beat
practitioners.
CASE 11. WU JUANXIONG
Wu, Yuanxiong, a native of Xia County, Shanxi Province and a
postdoctoral student at Hubei Armed Police Hospital, has been illegally
imprisoned at the Xiao County Armed Police Military Prison. He was sentenced to
one year of forced labor. His term was due in October of 2003, but he is still
detained there.
CASE 12: MR. ALEJANDRO CENTURION
Dr. Centurion Alejandro is an American citizen and a
Psychiatrist at Stanford University. He was arrested when he was appealing at
Tiananmen Square.
CASE 13: STUDENT A FROM JILIN MEDICAL COLLEGE
A was a student at Jilin Medical College of Jilin University
(Norman Bethune Medical University). On November 17, 2000, A was abducted to
Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province where A was
detained for eleven months and was beaten and tortured. He was later dismissed
from the.
A has benefited physically and mentally from practicing Falun
Gong. A's illness including Neurasthenia and severe arthritis on his knees were
cured. The teachers praised A for his/her study and good relationship with his
schoolmates.
On July 20, 1999, the police arrested many Falun Gong
practitioners. On October 22, 1999, A went to Beijing Appealing Office, was
brought back to Changchun and detained for 15 days. The school suspended A for
one year. On November 17, 2000, the police from the security section of
Changchun Sino-Japan Hospital went to search A's dorm without a permit and
confiscated some Falun Gong materials and books. The police from Shenzhen Street
Police Station later arrested A and one of his classmate Jin Guangxu and took
them to Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. In camp, police Yu Xuewen and Lu Jiusheng
ordered inmates to beat A. Inmate Xu Hui beat A's buttock with a wooden board;
inmate Chen Hexin beat A's waist, forced A to sit in a very painful position,
and tortured him with various means including "passing a wall" and "flying an
airplane". On October 18, 2001, A and his classmate were released. However, the
school dismissed them and received to issue them any certificate.
The responsible people for the persecution:
Liu Yuan from "610 Office" in Jilin
University: 86- 431-5286626 (h); 86-13804306552 (cell)
Bing Guangyi: 86-431-5180083 (h);
86-13620787190 (cell)
Hu Tianhou: 86-431-5292937 (h);
86-13843146115 (cell)
The President of Jilin University Liu
Zhongshu, the Party Secretary Wu Boda, the Vice Party Secretary Wang Shoushi
The President of Changchun Sino-Japan
Hospital Zhao Jisheng: 86-431-8955288; 86-431-4646414, x5115; the Party
Secretary Wang Fenglian: 86-431-8958463, 86-431-4646484-510
CASE 14: MR. LIANG GUIAI
Liang Guiai, 23 years old, from Longkou, Shandong province
was a senior student at the Basic Chinese Traditional Medical College of
Shandong Chinese Traditional Medical University. He was expelled because he
refused to give up his belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance".
On December 12, 1999, Liang practiced exercises at the
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, was repatriated to Jinan, Shandong Province and
detained at the school's Security Office for 7 days and nights. He was asked to
either quit Falun Gong or leave school "voluntarily". The authorities called his
parents to come to the school and cheated and intimidated them. After being
interrogated and threatened for 7 days and nights, Liang Guiai decided to quit
the school. On January 1, 2000, Liang went to Beijing for his second appeal. He
was repatriated to Longkou, Shandong. He was beaten mercilessly during the
detention and forced to hang himself. He managed to escape from the death. Liang
became homeless, destitute, begging around and experiencing humiliation. After
suffering for a long time, Liang's appearance has changed beyond recognition.
His eyeglasses are gone and his teeth have been knocked out. He has nothing but
tattered clothes.
Shandong Chinese Traditional Medical University
Address: 53 Jingshi Road, Jinan City,
Zip code: 250014,
President: Wang, Xinglu, Phone:
86-531-2613199
Secretary of School Communist Party
Committee, Zhang, Wenping and Zhou, Limin, phone: 86-531-2613003
Basic Chinese Traditional Medical
College: 86-531-2613128, Secretary: Shang, Qingxin
The Department of Chinese Traditional
Medicine: Bi Jingfeng, tutor;
Youth Corps Committee: Office of
Student Affairs: 86-531-2613016; the secretary: Li, Guanghua;
The Director of Security Office Liu
Jianmin: 86-531-2613110
CASE 15: MS. CHEN SHENGHUA
Chen Shenghua was a senior student of Lanzhou Chinese
Traditional Medical School in Gansu Province. In February of 2001, the police
from Haishiwan Police Station arrested her and her mother, Sheng Chunmei, for
distributing Falun Gong materials and sent them to Gansu Province Second Forced
Labor Camp. Chen was sentenced to one year and her mother was sentenced to two
years. Her father went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to one and half
years to Pingantai Forced Labor Camp in Lanzhou, Gansu Province.
Police participating in the persecution: Zhang, the Chief of
Politics and Law Section at Honggu Police Branch and Li Leng, the Vice Director
of Haishiwan Police Station
In china, the medical professionals who practice Falun Gong
can not escape the persecution. Those who continue practicing, are laid off, are
forced to attend brainwashing classes, or admitted to psychiatric hospital where
have been injected with high dosages of psychotropic which have destroyed their
central nervous system .
some medical professionals and scholar who practice Falun
Gong outside of China are also subject to the persecution when they visit their
their country:
Xiaoxu Ling, one of the HIV researcher in University of
Alabama in Birmingham, was placed on home arrest for one month. In December
1999, Lili Feng, professor of Baylor Medical College was illegally detained for
thirteen days when she visited China. She was made to do forced labor for
exportation. She regained freedom as result of great international rescue
effort.
In January 2003, US citizen and Chinese physician Charles
Lee, former Masachusett General Hospital researcher, was arrested and detained
in Guang Zhou Airport upon his arrival. He was detained in Yang Zhou City,
JiangSu province, and sentenced to three years in prison. He is presently being
detained, tortured and brainwashed in Nanjing prison. He has been violently
forced fed multiple times because he protested his illegal detention and abuse.
In November 25, 2003, American consulate in Shanghai visited Dr. Charles Lee and
he learned how Charles lee was mentally tortured. They have monitor camera for
surveilance in his celd and another camera was placed in the room where he is
being forced to watch a brainwashing video tape everyday. He's being also forced
to attend a 4-5 hours long brainwashing class. Everyday, a especial agent from
public security, Shao Gong, spend individual brainwashing sessions with him for
1-3 hours and every night he is forced to watch one hour anti Falun Gong video
and another hour of Chinese news broadcast propaganda and other propaganda
programs against Falun Gong.
Appendix I. Doctors and Health Workers in China Who Have Been Tortured to
Death
Ms. Dong Cuifang, female, 29 years old, was a postgraduate
student who worked at a medical school in Beijing. She was from Xinan Town in
Yecheng City of Hebei Province.
Mr. Zhang Yunyi, in his 30s, was formerly a medical doctor in
the Beijing Cooperation of Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital until he passed
away in August 2002 due to the persecution by Fujiang Province Police Bureau.
Appendix IV. Cases of Persecution Against American Medical
Professionals in China
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