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Practitioner Ms. Zhang Lanfen of Laiyang City Is Unlawfully Held in a Mental Hospital
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Lanfen, 40 years old, is a resident of
Dazhuangzi Village, Jiangzhuang Town, Laiyang City, Shandong Province. Ms. Zhang
has been practicing Falun Dafa for many years. Since July 20, 1999, Jiang's
regime began a campaign to slander and persecute Falun Dafa. Ms. Zhang has been
illegally detained by her local town government on three different occasions.
She was fined a total of 5,700 yuan [500 yuan is equal to the average monthly
salary of an urban worker in China]. Ms. Zhang's cassette recorder and Falun
Dafa books have been confiscated. On January 30, 2000, because Zhang Lanfen participated in a Falun Gong
practitioners' experience sharing conference, the local officials illegally put
her in the Laiyang City Mental Hospital, where she has suffered inhumane
physical torture. The responsible parties forcibly gave her infusions and
injections of unknown drugs. She was also forced to take large amounts of
medicine orally, sometimes 11 pills at once. Therefore, Ms. Zhang could not sit
up or stand steadily, and she often drooled uncontrollably. Whenever she refused
to take the pills, members of the medical staff would tie her arms and legs to
the bed and strike her with an electric baton. They also inserted a tube through
her nose in order to force-feed her medicine and food. In the mental hospital,
Ms. Zhang was examined every week, and she was always found to be in good
physical condition. However, a male medical staff member somehow concluded,
"Practicing Falun Gong makes one ill." Some time after she was released, on November 24, 2000, Ms. Zhang Lanfen went
to visit her mother. Four or five Jiangzhuang Town government officials led by
Zhang Li forcibly took her to the Laiyang Ruling Party School for attempted
brainwashing. Ms. Zhang refused to eat in order to protest the unreasonable
imprisonment. After eight days, she was force-fed and beaten many times. Because Ms. Zhang persisted in practicing her belief and refused to renounce
Falun Gong, she was held in a brainwashing center on three occasions and was
later sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. Town government official
Zhang Li, who has since left the town government post, has personally beaten Ms.
Zhang and forced her to sit on the frozen snow-covered ground during the middle
of winter. April 5th, 2004 Posting date: 4/19/2004 |