Victim:

Lu Yutao, female, 37, doctor of Dermatology at the People's Hospital of Linzi District, Zibo city, Shandong province

Location of Detention and Torture:

The Mental Hospital in Qiling Town of Linzi District, Zibo city, Shandong province

Perpetrators:

1.      Qu Guangming, Head of the Department of Politics and Security, Linzi District, Zibo city, Shandong province

2.      Sun Zhenrong, Superintendent of the Xuegong Police Substation in Linzi District, Zibo city, Shandong province

3.      Ms. Qi, a nurse at the Mental Hospital in Qiling Town of Linzi District, Zibo city, Shandong province

4.      The Head of the Police Station of Lushan County, Zibo city, Shandong province

5.      Mr. Zhou, from the Health Bureau, Zibo city, Shandong province

6.      Mr. Wang, the Secretary of the District Political and Legal Committee, Linzi District, Zibo city, Shandong province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Ms. Lu Yuntao is healthy and there is no history of mental illness in her family. On February 19, 2000, she was detained while appealing to the government in Beijing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was then escorted back to her hometown of Zibo city. She was forced to attend a brainwashing Class at her work unit for one week, and then detained at the Police Substation in Linzi District for 15 days. Because of relentless pressure from the police (including Sun Zhenrong, Superintendent of the Xuegong Police Substation in Linzi district), on March 18, the police and Ms. Lu's family sent her to the Mental Hospital, where she completely lost her freedom. The hospital staff, under pressure from the government, forced Ms. Lu to take drugs. At the strong request of her relatives, and after requiring her father to guarantee that she would not go to Beijing to appeal again, the Xuegong Police Substation released Ms. Lu from the hospital, without ever having done a diagnosis.

After being released from the hospital, Ms. Lu was monitored by her parents. The police threatened that, if she went to appeal again in Beijing, the police would confiscate her parent's house, and arrest and sentence her. Policemen from the Xuegong Police Substation, and the Police Station of Lushan County, and officer Zhou from the Health Bureau monitored her at her parents' house to prevent her from going to Beijing. Ms. Lu's father was asked several times to see Wang, the Secretary of the District Political and Legal Committee. They forced her father to send her to the mental hospital again, saying that Ms. Lu would not practice Falun Gong if she were injected with a few drugs.

type = Case, Psychiatric; type=Case, Women; type=Case, Religious Intolerance; location= Shandong, Zibo