(Minghui.org) Minghui.org recently learned that a Chongqing woman who had been missing for more than five years is currently held at a psychiatric hospital even though she has no mental illness.
Ms. Wu Hongmei, 53, had been forced to live away from home to avoid being persecuted for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999. Her family and friends lost contact with her about five years ago. They recently learned from an insider that Ms. Wu had been arrested at an unknown date and is currently held in a psychiatric hospital in Xiema Town, Beipei District.
Ms. Wu used to work at the Southwest Pharmaceutical Factory. She took up Falun Gong in 1996. After the persecution began three years later, she went to Beijing six times to appeal for Falun Gong. After one such trip to Beijing, she was arrested and escorted back to Chongqing. The police gave her two years of forced labor in September 2000 and took her to the Maojiashan Women’s Labor Camp.
Ms. Wu refused to renounce her faith and was brutally tortured by the labor camp guards. Her health declined as a result and the labor camp decided to release her on medical parole around early 2002. They notified the police to pick her up. Instead of releasing her, the police drove her straight to the Beiquan Psychiatric Hospital in the Beipei District. Upon finding out what happened to her, her family demanded her release. The police quickly moved her back to the labor camp, which declined to re-admit her. The police then put her in the psychiatric ward of the Beipei District Second People’s Hospital. It is unclear whether it’s the same hospital she is currently held in.
The hospital workers forced Ms. Wu to take unknown drugs, both in oral forms and injections, that damaged her central nervous system. She was not released until December 2003.
Practitioners Ms. Wu Hongmei and Mr. Wu Rongyao from Chongqing City Subjected to Persecution