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Due to government repression of Falun Dafa in China, it is difficult to collect information documenting the abuses. As a result, the material presented here is by no means complete. For each case documented, who knows how many similar cases of abuse remain undiscovered?
Case I
Victim's Personal Information:
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Name: Guo Qiong
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Education: College
Occupation: Bank Cashier
Health Condition: Mild neurasthenia before practicing Falun Dafa. Symptoms disappeared after practicing and she became energetic.
Previous Psychiatric History: None
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Guo Qiang's Story of Being Forced into a Mental Hospital
Leaders in her work unit threatened to fire her because she refused to stop practicing Falun Dafa. Her family members did not understand her either. Since her health condition was significantly improved after cultivation and her neurasthenia was cured without taking any medicine, she explained the nature of Falun Dafa to her family members using the example of her own health improvement. However, in order to force her to give up the practice so she could avoid being persecuted, her family claimed that her neurasthenia could also be cured by taking medicine. They took her to Hefei Psychiatric Hospital. As soon as the doctors in the hospital knew she was a Falun Dafa practitioner, they did not ask any other questions and forced her to stay in the hospital for treatment. Her family agreed, unaware of the hospital staff's real intentions.
Hospitalization Date: February 2000
Location: Hefei No 4 People's Hospital, Anhui province
Responsible Party: Guo Qiong's family members
Victim's Standpoint: Wants to continue practicing Falun Dafa; hospitalized against her will.
Documents showing agreement of admittance signed by patient: None
Signature on hospital admission documents: Family members
Condition for release: Give up practicing Falun Dafa
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Course of Hospitalization:
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Doctor: Dong XX, Male, around 40-years old
Diagnostic Process: Interactive conversation without any diagnostic tests; the content of the conversation was to ask her to give up practicing Falun Dafa.
Diagnosis: psychological disorder
Treatment: Primarily through medicines, the doctors forbade her to practice Falun Dafa.
Was victim informed about her diagnosis: Yes
Was the treatment plan explained: Yes
What are the medicines used for: psychological disorder
Was the side-effects of the medicines explained: No
Dosage: Three times a day, three pills each time.
Punishment for Refusal of Taking Medicines: Injection or electric shock. After being injected or shocked, she lied on the ground and lost consciousness.
Name of the medicines: Unknown
Symptoms After Taking Medicines: stomachache, constant vomiting until blood appeared. After she said she couldn't bear it, they changed to another medicine, which the staff claimed to be less strong. However, after taking the new medicine, she felt very tired and listless.
Discharge From the Hospital:
Duration of hospital stay: 22 days
Discharge diagnosis and documents: None
Treatment follow-up: None
Situation After Leaving Hospital: This practitioner told her family that she couldn't bear the treatment any more, her family then asked the doctors to discharge her from the hospital. She went to Beijing to appeal in July 2000 after she left the hospital. Her work unit asked her family to send her to the mental hospital again and claimed that they could share part of the treatment bill.
Case II
Victim's Personal Information:
Name: Zhu Weiying
Gender: Female
Age: 49
Education: Unknown
Occupation: Assistant manager of Meishan Restaurant, Anhui Province
Health Condition: Very good
Previous Psychiatric History: None
Description of Being Sent to Hospital:
Hospitalization Date: December 1999
Location: Hefei No 4 People's Hospital, Anhui province
Responsible Party: Her family or work unit
Victim's Standpoint: Wants to continue with Falun Dafa; hospitalized against her will.
Documents showing agreement of admittance signed by patient: None
Signature on hospital admission documents: Unknown
Condition for release: Give up practicing Falun Dafa
Course of Hospitalization:
Doctor: A female doctor about 40 years old, her name is unknown
Diagnostic Process: Unknown
Diagnosis: Unknown
Treatment: Primarily through taking medicines, the doctors forbade her to practice Falun Dafa and forced her to agree with the government's false statements about Falun Dafa, otherwise they would increase the drug dosage.
Was victim informed about her diagnosis: Unknown
Was the treatment plan explained: Unknown
What are the medicines used for: Unknown
Was the side-effects of the medicines explained: No
Dosage: a handful of pills each time
Punishment for Refusal of Taking Medicines: Injection or electric shock. After being injected, she lied on the ground and lost consciousness.
Name of the medicines: Unknown
Symptoms After Taking Medicines: After being forced to take a large amount of medicines, her lips trembled, she was unable to stand, her whole body became bloated, she became very pale, her movements and reactions became very slow.
Discharge From Hospital:
Duration of hospital stay: Over 60 days
Discharge diagnosis and documents: None
Treatment follow-up: None
Situation After Leaving Hospital: Unknown
Case III
Victim's Personal Information:
Name: Wang Caiyun
Gender: Female
Age: Over 40
Education: Unknown
Occupation: Beer Factory worker
Health Condition: Very good
Previous Psychiatric History: None
Description of Being Sent to Hospital:
Hospitalization Date: Unknown
Location: Hefei No 4 People's Hospital, Anhui province
Responsible Party: Her family or her work unit
Victim's Standpoint: Wants to continue with Falun Dafa; hospitalized against her will.
Documents showing agreement of admittance signed by patient: None
Signature on hospital admission documents: Unknown
Condition for release: Give up practicing Falun Dafa
Description: Policemen and her work unit forced her to give up practicing Falun Dafa and threatened her family that they could all lose their jobs and be given huge fines if she could not be transformed. Her family members had no choice but to send her to the mental hospital.
Course of Hospitalization:
Doctor: Unknown
Diagnostic Process: Unknown
Diagnosis: Normal, but still forced her to be hospitalized.
Treatment: Unknown
Was victim informed about her diagnosis: Yes
Was the treatment plan explained: Unknown
What are the medicines used for: Unknown
Was the side-effects of the medicines explained: No
Dosage: Unknown
Punishment for Refusal of Taking Medicines: Injection or electric shock. After being injected or shocked, she lied on the ground and lost consciousness.
Medicine Name: Unknown
Symptoms After Taking Medicines: Unknown
Discharge From Hospital:
Duration of hospital stay: Over 30 days
Discharge diagnosis and documents: Diagnosed with normal mental status.
Treatment follow-up: None
Situation After Leaving Hospital: Still forced her to be transformed. This practitioner had to leave home to avoid further persecution. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Case IV
Victim's Personal Information:
Name: Qu Yanan
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Education: Unknown
Occupation: Doctor in clinic at Rongshida Corporation of Hefei City
Health Condition: Very good
Previous Psychiatric History: None
Description of Being Sent to Hospital:
Hospitalization Date: May 16, 2000
Location: Hefei No 4 People's Hospital, Anhui province
Responsible Party: Her work unit
Victim's Standpoint: Wants to continue with Falun Dafa; hospitalized against her will.
Documents showing agreement of admittance signed by patient: None
Signature on hospital admission documents: Leader of her work unit
Condition for release: Give up cultivating Falun Dafa
Description: She went to Beijing to appeal four times. After being sent back from Beijing the last time, she was detained in a "Transformation Class" in Yicheng City. Since she was not "transformed," the leaders in her work unit forced her into the mental hospital.
Course of Hospitalization:
Doctor: Doctor Li, Director Xiang
Diagnostic Process: No examination.
Diagnosis: Normal, but still forced her to be hospitalized.
Treatment: Bound her on the bed and gave injections of tranquillizers. She was forced to take a medicine specifically used for psychosis --- Loxapine.
Was victim informed about her diagnosis: No
Was the treatment plan explained: Yes
What are the Medicines Used For: Psychosis
Was the side-effects of the medicines explained: No
Dosage: Two injections of Atropine a day for one week; then taking Loxapine twice a day. If she practiced the Falun Dafa exercises, the doses would be doubled.
Punishment for Refusal of Taking Medicines: Bound on bed and given injections of tranquillizers.
Medicine Name: Loxapine
Symptoms After Taking Medicines: weakness, slow movements, tremulous hands; dull eyes; dizziness. Due to the side effects of the medicines, her whole body became bloated, waistline increased from 2.1 chi (Translator's Note: Length measure used in China, 2.1 chi is equivalent to 28 inches) to 2.6 chi (34 inches). Whole body became deformed.
Discharge From Hospital:
Duration of hospital stay: Six months and six days
Discharge diagnosis and documents: Unknown
Treatment follow-up: None
Situation After Leaving Hospital: This practitioner continues to cultivate Falun Dafa. She went to Beijing to appeal in February 2001, and she is likely to be detained in No 1 Detention Center of Hefei City.
Case V
Victim's Personal Information:
Name: Wu Xiaohua
Gender: Female
Age: Over 40
Education: College
Occupation: Assistant Professor in Anhui Construction Industry Institute of Technology
Health Condition: Very good
Previous Psychiatric History: None
Description of Being Sent to Hospital:
Hospitalization Date: Unknown
Location: Hefei No 4 People's Hospital, Anhui province
Responsible Party: Anhui Female Detention Center
Victim's Standpoint: Wants to continue with Falun Dafa; hospitalized against her will.
Documents showing agreement of admittance signed by patient: None
Signature on hospital admission documents: Detention Center
Condition for not being admitted: Give up practicing Falun Dafa
Description: She went to Beijing to appeal at the end of December 1999. After being taken back, she was sent to a labor camp, and then transferred to the mental hospital.
Note: Other information about her is still unknown.
Dafa practitioners from China
March 20, 2001