Name: Peng Qingqing(彭青青)
Gender: Female
Age: 42
Address: Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Occupation: Employee of People's Hospital of Hubei
Date of Most Recent Arrest: January 17, 2007
Most recent place of detention: Psychiatric Center of People's Hospital of Hubei (精神病中心)
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Detention, interrogation, brutal beatings, held in mental hospital, forced injections/drug administration, forced labor, brainwashing, force-feedings, sleep deprivation, shackled, solitary confinement, extortion, torture, home ransacked, living under surveillance.
Key Persecutors: Deputy director of Psychiatric Center of People's Hospital of Hubei Wang Huiling (王惠玲), warden of Ezhou City No. 1 Detention Center Wang Shengli (汪胜利), director of Wuchang District 610 Office Yu (余某某)
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Peng Qingqin was forced to leave her job in 1995 because of health issues. In March, 1999, she started to practice Falun Gong. Her illness healed without any medical treatment.
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Ms. Peng has been arrested 14 times. She has been jailed, beaten, and tortured, both physically and mentally, for her belief. She has been held in detention centers, brainwashing centers, and mental hospitals.
First Arrest: Detained after Appealing at the Provincial Government
On July 20, 1999, Ms. Peng went to the Hubei Provincial Government office and requested the release of the Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in Tianjin City. She was illegally arrested by police and transported to a middle school used to detain practitioners in Hangyang City. She was released after being detained for an entire day.
Second Arrest: Detained after Appealing in Beijing
On September 3, 1999, Ms. Peng Qingqing went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested by police and detained in the Beijing's Qianmen Police Station. After being detained for a night, she was transferred to Wuhan City. A police officer from the Huanghelou Police Station released her after interrogation.
Third Arrest: Injected with Unknown Drugs in Psychiatric Center of People's Hospital of Hubei
On September 7, 1999, Ms. Peng went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested by police from the Qianmen Police Station and detained at the station. Ms. Peng refused to report her name and her employer to the police. As a result, she was seriously beaten, kicked, and slapped in the face. After that, she was transferred to the Wuhan City Government Liaison Office in Beijing and locked in the office for three days.
On September 10, 1999, Zeng Fanchen, director of the Security Division of the People's Hospital of Hubei, took her back to Wuhan City. She was placed in the Psychiatric Center of the hospital against her will.
Steel door of the Psychiatric Center on the fourth floor
The front view of the Psychiatric Center
In order to force Ms. Peng to denounce her belief in Falun Gong, director of the Psychiatric Center Wang Gaohua and deputy director Wang Xiaoping injected unknown medicine into her without her permission. As a result, she slept for three days. After she woke up, she could not speak, think straight, stand, or sit. She also felt as if bugs were biting everywhere on her body.
Torture re-enactment: forced injections of unknown drugs
After that, they tried to force Ms. Peng to take anti-psychotic drugs, which she refused. They continued to inject unknown drugs into her and prevented her relatives who practiced Falun Gong from visiting her.
On December 30, 1999, Ms. Peng was released from the hospital. Her body was swollen and disfigured from the drugs. Her weight increased from 50 kilograms to 70 kilograms.
During Ms. Peng's detention, the 610 Office of Wuchang District confiscated her brand-new computer, which cost about 7,000 yuan.
Fourth Arrest: Persecuted in the Psychiatric Center Again
On February 17, 2000, Ms. Peng met members of the Wuchang District 610 Office in People's Hospital of Hubei and clarified the facts about Falun Gong to them. However, they refused to listen and ordered her arrest. Zeng Fanchen and Zheng Ziyong from the hospital's Security Division, director of Psychiatric Center Wang Gaohua, and more than 10 security guards participated in arresting her and locking her up in the Psychiatric Center.
Ms. Peng was injected with unknown drugs again. She rapidly gained weight due to these injections. After being released on March 28, 2000, she was out of breath while walking and could not wear any of her old clothes. Her neighbors could hardly recognize her. She also had to wear glasses, as her eyesight was affected by the drugs.
After being persecuted in the Psychiatric Center for the second time, Ms. Peng visited Moshan, Donghu, Wuchang City, with her child.
While Ms. Peng was being persecuted, another Falun Gong practitioner, Zhang Huali, a graduate student of Wuhan University, was also detained in the Psychiatric Center. The doctors and guards force-fed her unknown drugs. The nurses pushed her head to the ground, then opened her mouth and fed her unknown drugs with a steel spoon.
Ms. Peng also witnessed two more Falun Gong practitioners being detained in the Psychiatric Center. One was a retiree from the Second Hospital of Hubei Medical University. Her last name was Song. Ms. Song was persecuted there for half a year; her whereabouts are still unknown. The other practitioner was a retiree from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. She was persecuted there for more than a month.
After Ms. Peng's release, she was constantly monitored and harassed by Zheng Ziyong.
Ms. Peng wrote a letter to the director of the hospital, Huang Congxin, to persuade him not to persecute Falun Gong, but he ordered Zeng Fanchen to arrest her again. However, officials could not find her.
Fifth Arrest: CCP officials followed her to her relatives' home
In order to avoid being arrested by the Security Division of the People's Hospital of Hubei, Ms. Peng and her ex-husband hid in her ex-husband's uncle's home. However, police officers from the Guloujie Police Department of Echeng, Hubei Province, and Zhang, a section leader from the local 610 Office broke into the home and arrested them. Officers beat them for a long time during the night. Zhang also pinched Ms. Peng's face with force. Ms. Peng's ex-husband was crippled due to the back injury from the beating; his back regained feeling only one year later. Since officials did not get any answers from the interrogation and did not find any so-called “evidence” from ransacking the uncle's home, the police had to let them go the next day.
Sixth Arrest: Sent to Forced Labor Camp
When Ms. Peng delivered Falun Gong-related articles to a fellow practitioner detained at the Qingling Detention Center of Wuchang District, she was stopped by the director of the detention center. The director called Yu from the Wuchang District 610 Office, and then Yu called police officer Wu Minqiu from the Huanghelou Police Station. They arrested Ms. Peng, took her to the Huanghelou Police Station and locked her in an iron cell. The next day, a group of medical personnel came and extracted large amounts of her blood. They also asked whether she had any illnesses.
During that time, Ms. Peng tried to clarify the facts about Falun Gong to Wu Minqiu, but he would not listen and instead pushed her down to the floor and then stepped on her face.
On May 15, 2001, Ms. Peng was sent to the Wuhan City Women's Forced Labor Camp. She was detained there 15 days and was brutally force-fed.
Seventh Arrest: Detained in Ezhou No. 1 Detention Center
On May 29, 2001, Ms. Peng was arrested by the Ezhou City Public Department of Hubei Province for carrying Falun Gong truth-clarification materials and detained at the Lianhua Lake Detention Center in Ezhou. She was interrogated and tortured. She was also not allowed to sleep for three days and nights. Ms. Peng refused to disclose the source of the truth-clarification materials. Three days later, she was transferred to the Ezhou No. 1 Detention Center.
Wang Shengli, the warden of the detention center, and others brutally beat Falun Gong practitioners and put heavy shackles on them at will. There was a severe lack of decency, and male guards and instructors routinely watched female detainees take baths or change clothes.
Torture re-enactment: handcuffs and shackles
The guards also deployed other types of brutal torture. They would bind a person's hands and feet together from the back forming a 90-degree angle. That person had to crawl on the floor and someone had to help her untie pants to use the restroom. Guards would leave practitioners wearing handcuffs and shackles like that for half a month. After the handcuffs and shackles were taken off, practitioners were almost crippled.
Wang Shengli, the warden of the detention center, put heavy shackles on Ms. Peng right after she arrived at the detention center. She could not stand, sit or fall asleep with them on. Since Ms. Peng did not give in, however. As along as she had a chance, she would shout out, “Falun Dafa is good! Stop persecuting Falun Gong!” Each time, Wang Shengli would drag her by her hair onto the floor and then out of the cell, and then beat her. Her thick black hair was pulled out. The guard's whip broke into pieces due to beating her so violently and her body was covered with gashes. When the guards took off the shackles three months later, Ms. Peng could not walk.
Once when a guard was beating up a prisoner, Ms. Peng stepped forward and intervened. Wang Shengli brought assistant director Huang Mingzhu and three other guards into her cell. They grabbed her and began to violently beat her head and eyes. Her left eye could not see anything afterward, and it took a long time to recover.
Falun Gong practitioners held a group hunger strike protesting the guards' persecution. The guards brutally force-fed them with salt water. Seven to eight people pressed down a Falun Gong practitioner on the floor while force-feeding her. Several times, some practitioners almost died due to force-feeding.
Torture re-enactment: brutal force-feeding
After practitioners stopped the hunger strike, the detention center did not stop the persecution. Since practitioners refused to recite prison regulations or wear the uniform, the guards often beat them. Later Wang Shengli again put shackles on Ms. Peng and ordered prisoners to bully and verbally abuse her. She was also detained in solitary confinement.
Ms. Peng's feet had open wounds, and even some bones were sticking out of the wounds due to long-term abuse. She requested to cover those wounds with bandages, but the request was denied. Ms. Peng mentally collapsed. She would not say a word each day and just stared straight ahead. At night, she would repeatedly say, “Let me go home. I am not guilty.” In the middle of October 2001, Ms. Peng was released. She continued to leave in extreme fear for a long time after returning home. Zhang, the section leader from Echeng Police Station, extorted 3,000 yuan from her at the time of her release.
Eighth Arrest: Sent to Psychiatric Center Again
On December 29, 2001, Ms. Peng was arrested by officers from the Zhongnanlu Police Station in Wuchang while she posted Falun Gong truth-clarification materials. Since she did not cooperate with the persecution and refused to stand up on command or wear the jail uniform, officer Liu Li kicked her, causing her mouth to bleed, and then handcuffed her so tightly that her hands became badly swollen.
Ms. Peng continued not to cooperate with any of the CCP officials' orders. Half a month later, the police station director Zhu ordered her to be transferred to the Psychiatric Center.
She was detained there for another month. The section leader from Wuchang 610 Office also surnamed Peng threatened, “If we see you posting Falun Gong flyers again, we will sentence you and send you to prison.”
Ninth Arrest: Persecuted in Mental Hospital
On March 8, 2002, Ms. Peng was arrested again and taken to the Wuhan No.1 Detention Center. Yu from the Wuchang District 610 Office and the director of the Zhonghualu Police Station in Wuchang led the arrest, accusing Ms. Peng of printing Falun Gong flyers. The agents took away nearly 10,000 yuan in cash with truth-clarification phrases printed on the bills. They also confiscated Ms. Peng's copy machine and refused to provide a receipt for it. Since Ms. Peng resisted the persecution, director of the detention center Zhu ordered guards to shock her with electric batons.
On March 23, 2002, Yu from the Wuchang District 610 Office and Wu Xingu from the Security Division of the People's Hospital of Hubei transferred Ms. Peng to the Mental Hospital managed by the Wuhan City Police Department.
On the same night, mental hospital director Chen Xuanming directed two tall and strong male psychiatric patients to hold Ms. Peng down so that staff could inject unknown drug into her. After that, they injected some drugs every night. After the injections, Ms. Peng could not fall asleep and spit out blood. After five days, the doctors came to check if Ms. Peng was mentally ill. From the question/answer examination, it was obvious that her mind was clear, as her responses were coherent and quick. Afterward, Ms. Peng clarified to them that the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square had been staged by the CCP to frame Falun Gong. The doctors concluded that Ms. Peng was normal and should not be detained in a mental hospital.
Torture re-enactment: unknown drug injection
However, the mental hospital dean named Xiong, as well as 610 Office officials, refused to release Ms. Peng unless she promised to give up her belief in Falun Gong. They ordered Chen Xuanming to inject more drugs into her and to not allow her to do the Falun Gong exercises or clarify the facts about Falun Gong. On the following day, Chen gathered four nurses (who wore police uniforms under their white nurse uniforms) and a vice director in her 20s. They tied Ms. Peng down and injected three large bottles of unknown liquid into her. After that, Ms. Peng could barely see anything. She had to hold to the wall to reach the bathroom and then she passed out. She regained consciousness a few minutes later. Chen accused her of pretending. To protest the torture, Ms. Peng held a hunger strike.
The agents at the hospital also tortured Ms. Peng with electric needles with very strong and continuous electric currents. Chen ordered two nurses to secure Ms. Peng to a bed, with all her limbs tied to the bed. A doctor in her 40s held down her head, while the vice director and the head of the nurses held down her arms. There were a total of six people involved. They plugged the electric needle machine into an electric outlet and turned the electric current to the maximum level. They continuously shocked her temple area, which is the most sensitive location in human body. During the torture, Chen shouted: “Are you still going to practice Falun Gong? Are you going to go on a hunger strike?”
Since the electric current was very strong and the torture lasted a long time, Ms. Peng's body convulsed and six people could not hold her down. It was so painful that Ms. Peng's tears flowed continuously. Eventually she lost consciousness, but she never gave in to their demands. The torture continued until the machine broke.
During the following days, Ms. Peng could not think properly, as if her brain was empty. She had an extremely bad headache and lost one of her front teeth. Afterward, the vice director frequently threatened her by saying, ”If you do not follow my orders, we will apply the electric needle.” Officials regularly used such methods to increase fear and mentally torture practitioners.
Ms. Peng lost her front tooth from the torture of being shocked with electric batons.
Ms. Peng was detained at the mental hospital for half a year. Later, staff were worried that Ms. Peng would die there, so they told Ms. Peng's family to pick her up. Ms. Peng was tormented y the memories of the electric needle torture for a long time afterward.
Tenth Arrest: Detained in Brainwashing Center
In mid-October 2002, Ms. Peng and other practitioners went to distribute flyers to clarify the facts about Falun Gong in a nearby township. They were reported by someone and arrested. Ms. Peng was detained in the Qiaotou Police Station in Jiangxia District, Wuhan City. The head of the Jiangxia District 610 Office wanted to transfer her to the Wuhan City Women's Labor Camp on the second night, but the labor camp refused to accept her, so he took her to the Jiangxia District Brainwashing Center instead.
In the brainwashing center, Ms. Peng clarified the facts and sang songs about Falun Gong, and shouted things like “Falun Dafa is good!” She also held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Unable to suppress Ms. Peng's righteous belief, the 610 Office director then sent her to a bus station and told her to go home. He said: “If Falun Gong is good, you can practice at home.”
Eleventh Arrest: Detained in Psychiatric Center for the Fourth Time
To prevent Ms. Peng from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong during the CCP's 16th congressional meeting, the CCP agents arrested her and took her to the Psychiatric Center of the People's Hospital of Hubei again on October 20, 2002.
At that time, Ms. Peng was washing her child's shoes at home. Zeng Fanchen and Zheng Ziyong from the hospital's Security Division brought more than ten security staff to arrest her. They carried her out by her arms and legs. Staff member Wu Xukang threatened Ms. Peng's family:”If she is not detained in the hospital, she would be detained in jail. You better cooperate with us. Otherwise your salaries will be withheld [both Ms. Peng's mother and sister worked for the hospital].”
At the Psychiatric Center, Ms. Peng held a hunger strike for half a month. Staff gave her an IV with some drugs that made her anxious. On November 4, Wu Xukang told her: “You can eat now. Once the CCP meeting is over on November 10, we will release you.” However, Ms. Peng continued the hunger strike. Wu Xukang was scared of potentially being blamed for her death, so he asked Psychiatric Center's director Wang Gaohua to release Ms. Peng. Ms. Peng's family were then allowed to take her home. The hospital did not keep any documentation of Ms. Peng's hospitalization.
Twelfth Arrest: Arrested While Clarifying the Truth
In December 2004, Ms. Peng went to the Hualian Supermarket on Zhonghua Road in Wuchang District and that saw someone was slandering Falun Gong. Ms. Peng clarified the facts to the people in the store and passed out truth-clarifying DVDs. The security guard of the supermarket called the police from the Zhonghua Road Police Station to arrest her. The officers almost broke Ms. Peng's neck and arms during the arrest; her arms did not regain full sensation for nearly three months afterward. The police also pulled off her shirt and exposed her bra.
Ms. Peng's mother and children immediately came to the Zhonghualu Police Station to ask for her release. The police released her at night, but the next morning, they broke into her home to arrest her again. Ms. Peng had suspected this, so she left home before they came and the police could not find her.
Thirteenth Arrest: Sentenced to Forced Labor
On July 16, 2005, Ms. Peng and her husband passed out truth-clarifying fliers at the Yuehu Bridge, Qiaokou District, Wuhan City and were arrested by plainclothes police who were disguised as lovers. The police crazily covered Peng Qingqing's head with a plastic bag tightly and covered her mouth with a smelly cloth, which almost suffocated her. The police also threatened to throw her into the river and let her drown. Soon after that, the police ransacked her home and took away a laptop worth 7,000 Yuan, two printers, one scanner, five hundred Yuan cash and other personal belongings.
Because Peng Qingqing firmly protested the persecution and clarified the truth to them, the police released her that night. But they sentenced her husband to one and a half years forced labor and imprisoned him at the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City
Fourteenth Arrest: Held in Psychiatric Center for Requesting the Release of Her Husband
On January 17, 2007, Ms. Peng went to the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City to request the release of her husband, who was being held there even though his sentence had already expired. The person in charge (about 60 years old, male) not only did not release her husband, but also called the Gusaoshu Police Station to arrest her. He then called officer Yu from the Wuchang District 610 Office, and he called the CCP Committee of the People's Hospital of Hubei. The hospital's CCP Secretary Tang Qizhu sent the committee's office director Lan Liqiong and Security Division guard Zheng Ziyong to assist police officer Wu Minqiu from the Huanghelou Police Station of the Wuchang Police Department in the arrest. They held her on the ground and took her to the Psychiatric Center of the People's Hospital of Hubei.
Ms. Peng immediately went on a hunger strike to protest the unlawful detention. She also clarified the facts about Falun Gong to the people she met and told them how the CCP sentenced her husband to one and a half years of forced labor because he believes in Falun Gong and did not release him after he finished the term. Over 60 people agreed to quit the CCP after hearing this.
The deputy director of the Psychiatric Center Wang Huiling refused to listen to Ms. Peng's truth clarification, however, saying that she only listens to what the CCP tells her. She constantly incited others to tie up Ms. Peng and inject poisonous drugs into her. When Ms. Peng went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, they injected a long-lasting drug that caused her to be in a trance, dizzy,and upset. The drug caused her to have trouble sitting, and her eyes became blurred. Her hands and arms, as well as her feet, were bruised and scarred due to the injections.
Ms. Peng’s two elder brothers went to officer Yu at the Wuchang District 610 Office and requested Ms. Peng to be released, but Yu denied their request. However, Ms. Peng’s eldest brother then got very angry, and under pressure Yu yielded. The hospital forced Ms. Peng's mother to write a guarantee statement to promise that her daughter would quit practicing Falun Gong before they released Ms. Peng.
Ms. Peng on March 20, 2007, after being released from Psychiatric Center of the People’s Hospital of Hubei
After the hospital released Ms. Peng on the afternoon of March 20, 2007, the CCP put personnel on the opposite side of her residence building to keep her under surveillance. The CCP agents also spread rumors that Ms. Peng had a mental disorder because of practicing Falun Gong.
Because of the side effects from the poisonous drug injections, Ms. Peng could not stand or sit. Her body was very weak and the old condition causing the lymphatic swelling recurred. She had to lie down on the bed at home and could not straighten her back because it hurt too much. Two fellow practitioners came to her home to help a few times, but Lan Liqiong ordered the hospital's CCP Committee personnel to call Ms. Peng’s eldest brother and threaten him: “Peng Qingqing still has contact with other Falun Gong practitioners. If you do not stop her, we will imprison her again.”
CCP officials have not allowed Ms. Peng to leave the country.
Parties involved in the persecution:
Wang Huiling, deputy director of Psychiatric Center (female): 86-27-88041911-5550
People’s Hospital of Hubei in Wuhan University: 86-27-88041911, 86-27-88076808, email: info@rmhospital.com, website http://www.rmhospital.com
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