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1. Victim's personal information:

Name: Zhou Enguang

Gender: Female Health: Normal

Age: 47 History of mental disorder: None

Occupation: Doctor

2. The course of being forced into the mental hospital:

Date: December 8, 1999

Location: Mental patient's ward at Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital (Weifang City, Shandong Province)

Officials involved with the persecution (name and occupation): Xu Jian -- Secretary of Party Committee in the local Health Department.

Major instigator (police, work unit or family member): Wang Liqun -- Secretary of local Immunization Department.

Persons representing or speaking on behalf of the victim: None.

Official who signed admission papers: Liu Zhubin, Chief of local Immunization Department.

Stated conditions for release: In order to avoid forced psychiatric hospitalization,

the victim must sign a letter stating that she will not go to the Appeals Office and she will stop practicing Falun Gong.

3. Situation after being admitted in the mental hospital:

  1. Physicians-in-charge:

    2. Zhang Xuexian -- Dean,

    Luan Jianguo -- Section Department Chief

    Nurse-in-Charge and position: Dean Wang

  2. Name of hospital: Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital (Weifang City, Shandong Province)
  3. The whole course of the admission records and results of diagnosis: None
  4. Notice to victim about results of diagnosis and treatment plan: None
  5. Explanations and details about medicines used in the treatment (e.g. type, quantity used, side-effects, symptoms which the medicine affects): None
  6. Any records of hospital procedures taken when the victim refused to take the medicine prescribed unless given the details about the medicine: None
  7. Any records of name of medicine and reactions and symptoms following the unauthorized administration of medicine (please provide details from records): None
  8. Any recorded details of situations when the victim was restrained, type of equipment used, how long the victim was restrained for, and actions taken by attending medical personnel: None
4. Condition after being released from the hospital: details of situation surrounding reasons for hospital's agreement to discharge, records of final diagnosis, check-ups following discharge.

Zhou Enguang's family appealed numerous times to higher officials (e.g. Director of Health Department) for her release. Because of the extreme situation, her family helped her to escape. Due to this, her husband was illegally detained for 2 days on the orders of Wang Liqun (Secretary of Local Immunization Department), Xu Jian (Secretary of Party Committee in the local Health Department) and Liu Zhubin (Chief of local Immunization Department). He was locked in a room of less than 10 square meters at the mental ward in the Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital. Leaders from all levels threatened that if he did not surrender Zhou Enguang, they would fire him. Zhou Enguang was forced to stay in the mental hospital for over 81 days. She was also fined for more than 6000 Yuan (about a year's salary for an average urban worker in China).

Now, Zhou Enguang remains homeless and is wandering the streets, but she still is very determined in her belief in Falun Gong.

Practitioners in China

March 19, 2001

Chinese version available

Category: Accounts of Persecution