Victims:

1.      Yan Jiehua, male, 44, Yandu county, Jiangsu province

2.      Guo Naitong, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

3.      Zhu Yong, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

4.      Wang Guiru, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

5.      Chen Jian, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

6.      Wang Aihua, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

7.      Cai Qiaofeng, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

Location of the Incident:

1.      Yandu County Police Department, Jiangsu province

2.      Yungang Mental Hospital, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

3.      Longgang Mental Hospital, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

Perpetrators:

1.      Xu Chengwen, the deputy chief of the Yandu County Police Department, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

2.      Wang Ailin, head of Political Security Division of the Yandu County Police Department, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

3.      Wang Quantang, the heads of the Political Security Division of the Yandu County Police Department, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

4.      Feng Yongnong, deputy mayor of the Yancheng city, is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

5.      Feng Yongnong's secretary, Cui Chengfu, is responsible for planning and writing documents to persecute practitioners, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

6.      Huang Xinhai, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

7.      Liu Hongli, head of the local armed forces, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

8.      Yang Hongzhao, head of the local public relations bureau, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

9.      Ding Qiong, head of the women's council, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

10.  Jia Taoying, a “teacher” at the brainwashing class, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

11.  Su Huajun, a police officer at the Zhangzhuang Police Station, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

12.  Chen Guangxiang, a person who watches practitioners in the brainwashing class, Yandu County, Jiangsu province13. Staff of Yungang Mental Hospital, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

13.  Staff of Longgang Mental Hospital, Yandu County, Jiangsu province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yan Jiehua became a main target of the local authorities after they began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999. Xu Chengwen, the deputy chief of the Yandu County Police Department, personally led the police squad to interrogate and beat him on numerous occasions using a variety of inhumane methods.

Since February 2001, the police have tortured practitioners who have stepped forward on behalf of Falun Gong. Being inspired by ancient methods of torture, the police handcuffed Yan's hands to two iron gates, and then they pushed the gates open, causing him tremendous pain. They then forced Yan, who was on the verge of death, to place his thumbprint next to a falsified statement claiming that he was an “organizer of trips to Beijing to make appeals against the ban of Falun Gong.”

Mr. Yan was then held at the local detention center for one month, and at the Yungang Mental Hospital for another forty-five days, where he endured even more inhumane torture. In the end, he was sentenced to one and a half years in the labor camps.

Five practitioners, Guo Naitong, Zhu Yong, Wang Guiru, Chen Jian, and Wang Aihua, were sent to the Longgang Mental Hospital, where they were tortured with a variety of inhumane methods. The staff there used electric needles to electrocute practitioners and forced them to take medication that damaged their central nervous system. As a result, a number of practitioners still show symptoms of slow reaction time, memory loss, and exceeding nervousness.

On October 1, Practitioner Cai Qiaofeng was arrested on his way to Beijing to appeal against the ban of Falun Gong. On October 9, he was escorted to the city detention center, and was moved to the Longguang Mental Hospital one month later. He has still not been released.

type=Group, Psychiatric; type = Case, Psychiatric; location= Jiangsu, Yandu