(Minghui.org) As a major persecution tactic in the 26-year suppression of Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) incarcerates mentally healthy Falun Gong practitioners in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, detention centers, or brainwashing centers, where they are subjected to brutal torture and forced ingestion of psychiatric drugs.

The involuntary drug administration is mostly done through injection or forced-feeding, often accompanied with electric shocks or tying up the victim’s limbs in excruciating positions. The results are devastating: some practitioners lost their vision or hearing; some experienced intense, lasting headaches; others fell into a delirious state; some became completely incapacitated; and some lost their lives.

In this report, we present 28 cases in Sichuan Province where Falun Gong practitioners passed away as a result of forced drug administration and/or physical torture. Due to strict censorship in China, the information presented is believed to be the tip of the iceberg and the actual severity of the persecution is likely far more brutal and extensive than what has been reported.

Case 1: Mr. Tang Xiaocheng Dies After Detention at Pengzhou City Psychiatric Hospital

Mr. Tang Xiaocheng, of Pengzhou City, was arrested one night in May 2002 after being reported for putting up Falun Gong posters. He was beaten and taken to the Pengzhou City Psychiatric Hospital. He died in August 2002, two months after he was released from the hospital. He was 40.

Case 2: Ms. Huang Lisha Dies in the Qingyang District Hospital

Ms. Huang Lisha

Ms. Huang Lisha, a former human resource manager for the Yangcunpu Coal Mine in Emeishan City, was arrested in Chengdu City on August 22, 2002, while living in displacement to avoid the persecution. She was held in the Chengdu City Detention Center and force-fed after she held a hunger strike to protest.

Ms. Huang was transferred to the Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu in early September 2002 and given continuous IV drips containing unknown drugs. She began to vomit blood and also had severe bleeding in her digestive system. She fell into a coma days later and died on October 17, 2002. The authorities cremated her body minutes later. She was 34.

Case 3: Ms. Hu Hongyue Dies in the Qingyang District Hospital

Ms. Hu Hongyue

Ms. Hu Hongyue, 45, was an employee of Xindu Oil Pump Nozzle Factory in Sichuan Province. She went missing on September 28, 2002, and the police notified her workplace of her death in November 2002.

The police only showed a picture of Ms. Hu to her family members and her workplace and claimed that she had starved to death. Neither her family nor her employer were allowed to see the body, which was cremated against the family’s will on November 19, 2002.

An officer from the General Commander’s Office of the Chengdu Police Department commented about Ms. Hu’s death on November 23, 2002: “I cannot talk about this. I don’t want to be held responsible.”

Another practitioner, who was sent to the Qingyang District Hospital on October 15, 2002, wrote of her encounter with Ms. Hu in an article submitted to the Minghui website:

“Six days after I arrived there, two more practitioners were brought in on October 21. They were Ms. Hu Hongyue and Ms. Zhang Yaling from Xindu Oil Pump Nozzle Factory. Although the officers did not allow us to talk to each other, we managed to exchange a few words.

“Both of them were arrested on a bus and had been on a hunger strike for over 30 days, to protest the illegal detention. The hunger strike continued after they arrived there. The doctors hooked them up to intravenous injections every day, which caused them to urinate excessively. But the guards did not unlock their foot shackles, rendering them with no choice but to urinate in bed. A nurse, influenced by the hateful propaganda from the CCP, reprimanded them severely. The guards also humiliated them and beat them. As time continued, the nurse no longer replaced their bedsheets once a week as scheduled. They had to sleep in beds that were filthy and wet.

“By early November, they could not speak normally and often repeatedly asked, ‘What’s going on? Why are we here?’ Their memories were deteriorating. It was evident that they had been subjected to psychiatric abuse.

“Even under that condition, the Xindu police did not release them. Instead, they were each given an 18-month labor camp term. While holding the detention notice in their hands, however, they could not read it, nor did they know what it was about.

“After over 20 days in the hospital, as a result of the drugging, Ms. Hu died on the morning of November 12, after struggling the entire night. When her body was carried away, she left a blood spot over 20 centimeters wide.”

Case 4: Ms. Jiang Jieyu Dies After Toxic Injections at Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Jiang Jieyu, in her 50s, a villager from Pin County, was arrested on February 24, 2000 when she went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. She was held at the Pi County Brainwashing Center for an unknown amount of time. She was arrested again on February 17, 2001, and taken to the Pi County Brainwashing Center. She returned to Beijing to appeal in November 2001, and was given one and a half years at the Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labor Camp. There, she was tortured and injected with nerve-damaging drugs. She was released on the verge of death, and passed away in the second half of 2003.

Case 5: Ms. Meng Xiao Dies After Repeated Toxic Injections at Tangchang Brainwashing Center and 201 Military Hospital

Ms. Meng Xiao (picture taken during her internship in Beijing)

Ms. Meng Xiao, then 37, of Nanchong City, was arrested and sentenced to a two-year prison term after displaying a Falun Gong banner on Tiananmen Square on November 17, 1999. During her detention in Beijing, she was beaten, shocked with electric batons, and tied up, among other tortures.

Ms. Meng was sent to the Sichuan Province Women’s Prison in Jianyang City on April 12, 2000. She was repeatedly placed in solitary confinement, beaten, dragged up and down stairs, and shocked with electric batons. She was also handcuffed with her arms behind her back many times, including several days of being left under a window in the freezing winter wearing only one thin layer of clothing.

Torture reenactment: handcuffed behind the back

After Ms. Meng was released in November 2021, she published an article about her ordeal on the Minghui website on January 21, 2002. After finding out about it, the police ministry – through the Sichuan Province administration – ordered her workplace to monitor her closely. As a result, Ms. Meng was held at the Chengdu Steel Plant for a period of time, without being allowed to go home at night.

Ms. Meng was sent to the Tangchang Brainwashing Center on April 24, 2002. She was beaten and kicked to the point that she could no longer stand, due to injuries to her spine and tailbone. After falling into critical condition, Ms. Meng was sent back to her workplace, where she was forcibly injected with nerve-damaging drugs.

Although nearly paralyzed, Ms. Meng was able to read Falun Gong books and do the exercises, and was eventually able to stand up without medication. She was later forced to live away from home to avoid further persecution.

The police arrested Ms. Meng on November 19, 2003, and the detention center guards often took her to the 201 Military Hospital for routine injections of nerve-damaging drugs, including diazepam and chlorpromazine.

After Ms. Meng explained what Falun Gong was to the doctors, they stopped administering the drugs to her. She was then taken to Jintang First Hospital to continue the forced injections.

Ms. Meng’s family requested her release, but an officer from the Chengdu 610 Office refused. “We won’t release her even if she dies here,” he said.

Ms. Meng died in the hospital between January 8 and 12, 2004. Her body was cremated immediately without the family being notified.

Case 6: Mr. Guo Juting Dies After Toxic Injections at Lingquan Temple Detention Center

Mr. Guo Juting, of Suining City, was arrested on March 17, 2001 for talking to Tianfu Town government officials about Falun Gong. He was whipped with a leather belt and given a forced labor camp term of unknown length. He was released on December 30, 2002.

Mr. Guo was arrested again on November 13, 2003, and his home was ransacked. While held at the Lingquan Temple Detention Center, he held a hunger strike to protest, and was force-fed and given toxic injections. He was released on December 3, 2004, only to die on January 24, 2005. He was 69.

Case 7: Ms. Li Xianmin Dies After Toxic Injections at Shehong County Detention Center, Body Forcibly Dissected

Ms. Li Xianmin, a former employee of the Shehong County Social Security Bureau, was arrested on February 1, 2005. She had cold symptoms on the morning of April 6, 2005, and the Shehong County Detention Center had an inmate who was a veterinarian give her some IV drips around 2 p.m. She began to vomit and had loose bowels shortly after.

At 7 p.m., the guard took Ms. Li to the hospital, but declined the doctor’s recommendation to have her admitted to inpatient care. She was taken back to the detention center at 9 p.m. and given more unknown drugs. She became even colder and her eyes were bulging. Ms. Li died at 1 a.m. on April 7, 2005. She was 51.

Without her family’s consent, the authorities dissected Ms. Li’s body at the funeral home. Her intestines were laid on the ground and some of her organs were removed by Liang Hai, director of the Department of Pathology of Suining People’s Hospital.

Case 8: Mr. Li Jiabin Dies After Toxic Injections at the Shuangliu County First Hospital

Mr. Li Jiabin

Mr. Li Jiabin, of Shuangliu County, was taken to the Zhengxing Town Brainwashing Center on June 14, 2004 and then transferred to the Shuangliu County Detention Center on August 18. After four months of detention, he was taken to the Shuangliu County First Hospital. The doctors chained his limbs to the bed and gave him shots of unknown drugs every day. In just two weeks, he was in a disoriented state; his body was swollen and bruised; his skin was bleeding and oozing pus. Mr. Li was released around February 9, 2005, and died on May 16, 2005. He was in his 50s.

Case 9: Ms. Lin Feng Dies After Toxic Injections in the Longquanyi Women’s Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Lin Feng

Ms. Lin Feng, of Nanchong City, was arrested on February 11, 2002, for distributing Falun Gong informational materials. She was sent to the Longquanyi Women’s Forced Labor Camp in February 2003 to serve a three-year term. Because of she remained determined in her faith, Ms. Lin was forcibly injected with unknown drugs, resulting in kidney failure, coma, and swelling all over her body. The labor camp sent her back home on May 18, 2005, when she was on the verge of death.

Ms. Lin was unconscious most of the time. When occasionally awake, she would say, “I’m not sick. I became like this due to torture.” Her family sent her to the hospital and she was issued a critical condition notice multiple times. Ms. Lin died on the morning of July 26, 2005, at the age of 36.

Case 10: Ms. Li Jiawei Dies After Toxic Injections in the Red Cross Hospital

Ms. Li Jiawei, a retired employee of the Xuyong County Clay Company, was arrested in 2005 for talking to people about Falun Gong. She was injected with unknown drugs at the Red Cross Hospital. Her feet developed infected sores soon after. She died in November 2005. She was 52.

Case 11: Ms. Zhao Zhongling Dies in the Qingyang District Hospital

Ms. Zhao Zhongling

Ms. Zhao Zhongling, a former employee of the Jinjiang Electric Motor Factory in Chengdu City, was given a two-year term at the Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp in 1999 for appealing for Falun Gong. She was tortured and forced to ingest unknown drugs. By the time of her release, she was emaciated and hunchbacked.

Ms. Zhao was arrested again in 2003 for raising awareness about the persecution and was sentenced to three years. After her term expired, the authorities didn’t release her, but took her to the Xinjin Brainwashing Center and then to the Qingyang District Hospital.

Shortly after she returned home, Ms. Zhao was arrested again on November 15, 2006, for distributing Falun Gong materials. She was held at the Chengdu City Detention Center where she was subjected to brutal torture. She was released on the verge of death in late December 2006.

Ms. Zhao was taken back into custody at the Chengdu City Detention Center on March 23, 2007. She held a hunger strike to protest and was taken to the Qingyang District Hospital. On April 2, 2007, she was forcibly injected with unknown drugs. Two police officers and a doctor showed up at Ms. Zhao’s home on April 23 and told her family that she was weak and in the hospital. When her sister visited her on May 4, she had already lost the ability to talk. Ms. Zhao died in the hospital in the early hours of May 5, 2007. She was 44.

Case 12: Ms. Huang Min Dies in the Qingyang District Hospital

Ms. Huang Min

Ms. Huang Min, the former Deputy Director of the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, was arrested on March 3, 2007, and taken to the Chengdu City Detention Center. Her family received a call from the Qingyang District Court in early June 2007, telling them that she was in critical condition. When her family asked to see her, the police forced them to sign her arrest notice first.

According to Ms. Huang’s sister, she was held in a private room and monitored by two inmates around the clock. More detention center guards and surveillance cameras were seen outside the room.

Ms. Huang was wearing very heavy shackles; her nails were very long and she smelled bad, as she hadn’t been allowed to bathe after her arrest months before; her lower body was naked and covered with a bed sheet; the sheet underneath her was soiled.

Ms. Huang’s family was notified by the Qingyang District Court in late June 2007 that she had been sentenced to six years.

The family received another call from the hospital on August 15, 2007, and were told that Ms. Huang had died at 7:30 a.m. that day. When they saw her body, her facial expression showed great pain; her eyes were slightly open; her head was tilted to the right; and her mouth was wide open and a mandibular tooth was missing; yellow liquid with strong medicinal odor was all over her mouth and teeth; her hands were in tight fists; and there were some bruises on her arms. Her body was cremated later that day. Ms. Huang was 53.

Case 13: Ms. Zhou Huimin Dies in the Qingyang District Hospital

Ms. Zhou Huimin, of Jianyang City, was arrested six times between December 5, 1999 and July 8, 2003. She was held in the Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labor Camp, Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu City, Jianyang City Chinese Medicine Hospital, and the Dujiangyan City Forestry Center Hospital. While in custody, Ms. Zhou was beaten, shocked with electric batons, hung up, force-fed, and forced to receive IV drips, mostly sleeping medication.

Ms. Zhou demonstrating the torture she suffered in the Qingyang District Hospital

Ms. Zhou was arrested again on September 26, 2007, and held at the Xinjin Brainwashing Center and Chengdu City Detention Center. She started a hunger strike on February 1, 2008, and was taken to the Qingyang District Hospital four days later. Her brother contacted the Wuhou Domestic Security Office in Chengdu on March 10 and was told that Ms. Zhou was on the verge of death, yet the authorities said they would not release her even if she died in the hospital. She passed away at the hospital at 5:30 a.m. on March 13, 2008. She was 45.

Case 14: Ms. Liu Guoshu Becomes Delirious After Toxic Injection at Home, Dies After a Deadly Fall

Ms. Liu Guoshu, of Wanyuan City, was at home alone when the police broke in on the evening of July 11, 2008. Four officers pushed her to the ground and injected her with an unknown drug. They then called her sister, Ms. Liu Guoju, and told her to take Ms. Liu Guoshu to her home.

When Ms. Liu Guoju saw her sister on the evening of July 14, 2008, she was already in a delirious state with a painful facial expression. On the early morning of July 17, 2008, Ms. Liu Guoshu fell when she was trying to climb over from the side of the house into the neighbor’s. She stopped breathing on the way to the hospital. She was 46.

Case 15: Mr. Quan Xueyin’s Lungs Developed Infection After Toxic Injection, Later Passes Away

Mr. Quan Xueyin, of Pengxi County, was arrested in April 2000 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, when he appealed for the right to practice Falun Gong. He was taken back to Pengxi County and sentenced to one year. He held a hunger strike several times and was force-fed. Mr. Quan returned to Beijing to appeal again in 2001, only to be arrested and sentenced to two years. Due to torture in custody, he became very weak and after his release, he was unable to work on the farm anymore. He made a living by selling soy sauce and vinegar.

Mr. Quan was arrested again on November 28, 2004, and was sentenced to another three years. He was covered with wounds from police beatings. Before the end of his prison term, the officers forcibly drew a blood sample and injected him with a toxic drug. His lungs were severely damaged and an infection developed. Mr. Quan passed away on March 8, 2009, at the age of 39.

Case 16: Mr. Xie Deqing Dies After Toxic Injections at Xinjin Brainwashing Center

Mr. Xie Deqing

Mr. Xie Deqing, 69, a retired employee of the Chengdu Survey and Design Research Institute in Sichuan Province, was arrested on April 29, 2009 and taken to Xinjin Brainwashing Center. In just over 20 days, Mr. Xie, who was in good health and robust, was tortured to the verge of death. He was weak and emaciated, suffered urinary incontinence, had trouble swallowing, and had developed severe angina pectoris (chest pain).

In the four days after he released, Mr. Xie was unconscious most of the time. He pressed on his chest, tossing and moaning in pain, as if his internal organs were causing pain. During the few brief moments when he was lucid, he told his family that the brainwashing center guards took him to the hospital and injected him with unknown drugs, which rendered him unable to eat or drink anything for nearly 10 days. Mr. Xie died on the evening of May 27, 2009. His hands turned black, and his body gradually turned black, an indication of drug poisoning.

Mr. Xie Deqing after his release from Xinjin Brainwashing Center

Case 17: Mr. Xiao Hongmo Dies After Toxic Injections in the Deyang Prison

Mr. Xiao Hongmo

Mr. Xiao Hongmo, a former worker of the 405 Prospecting Team in Ruoergai, Aba Prefecture, was arrested in the middle of the night on January 18, 2001, and was sentenced to five years. He was arrested again on April 18, 2008, for talking to people about Falun Gong. He was given another five-year term and taken to the Deyang Prison. As he persisted in practicing Falun Gong, the prison guards injected him with unknown drugs on July 15, 2009. He fell into a coma and became incontinent.

While Mr. Xiao was being treated at the Deyang City Hospital between July 25-26, 2009, the prison lied to his family, telling them that he had a brain tumor. His mother was not allowed to visit him. Mr. Xiao was transferred to the Chengdu Branch of the Sichuan Provincial Judicial Police General Hospital on July 27, 2009, and died there in mid-March 2010. He was 47.

Case 18. Mr. Liu Guangdi Dies After Involuntary Drug Administration at Xishanping Forced Labor Camp

Mr. Liu Guangdi

Mr. Liu Guangdi, a senior engineer and former Director of the Power Department of the Sichuan Energy Investment Company, was arrested in April 2008 for distributing Falun Gong informational materials. He was given one year at the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing. Due to the abuse and hard labor, Mr. Liu contracted pleurisy with pleural effusion. Given his family’s strong protest, he was taken to the labor camp hospital. As Mr. Liu persisted in practicing Falun Gong, the guards force-fed him large amounts of toxic drugs. He was in critical condition when he was released on April 10, 2009. He died on September 25, 2010. He was in his 60s.

Case 19. Ms. Hu Guifang Dies After Detention at Sichuan Province Women’s Prison

Ms. Hu Guifang, of Jianyang City, was arrested in early March 2005 for talking to people about Falun Gong and was secretly sentenced to five years. While she served time at the Sichuan Province Women’s Prison, the guards laced her food with unknown drugs. The chronic toxicity caused her to gradually lose her vision and suffer from incontinence. Ms. Hu died in December 2010, at the age of 65.

Case 20. Mr. Chen Shiming Dies After Being Released from Meishan Brainwashing Center

Mr. Chen Shiming

Mr. Chen Shiming, of Meishan City, was arrested for a fifth time on July 20, 2010. He was beaten by eight police officers and taken to the Meishan Brainwashing Center. There he was injected with unknown drugs and the guards also added the drugs to his food and water. They didn’t release Mr. Chen until he was on the verge of death. He passed away on April 10, 2011, less than six months after his release.

Case 21. Ms. Yuan Yongwen Dies After Involuntary Drug Administration at Sichuan Province Women’s Prison

Ms. Yuan Yongwen, a retired employees of the Qionglai City Electric Motor Factory, was arrested on March 26, 2008 for talking to people about Falun Gong at a farmers’ market. She was sentenced to three years by the Qionglai City Court in mid-October 2008 and was admitted to the Sichuan Province Women’s Prison.

The prison guards forced Ms. Yuan to take unknown drugs, which caused her to become mentally disoriented, often relieving herself in her pants. The guards also instigated inmates to beat her, causing a fracture to her coccyx. She became incapacitated and was transferred to the police hospital in Chengdu.

When Ms. Yuan’s family visited her at the hospital on April 20, 2010, she was emaciated; her body was stiff; she had a urinary catheter; and she was talking unintelligibly. When her family touched her, Ms. Yuan shouted, “Don’t beat me!” Her family also noticed many needle marks on her right hand.

Ms. Yuan Yongwen became emaciated due to the persecution

Not wanting her to die in custody, the police took Ms. Yuan home the next day, saying she might have a few hours left. With her family’s meticulous care, Ms. Yuan was able to eventually eat a light liquid diet. Yet she remained bedridden and eventually died on May 7, 2011. She was 69.

Case 22. Mr. Wu Yihua Dies from Involuntary Drug Administration at Erehu Brainwashing Center

Mr. Wu Yihua, a physician in Ziyang City, was arrested at his clinic on October 12, 2010, and taken to the Erehu Brainwashing Center.

As Mr. Wu remained firm in practicing Falun Gong, Xiao Hui, the head of the brainwashing center, worked with Huang Guangwu of the Ziyang City Domestic Security Office to torture Mr. Wu for days. They also laced his water with nerve and organ-damaging drugs.

Mr. Wu was completely unrecognizable when he was released in March 2011. He fainted a few days later and was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. Unable to afford daily hemodialysis, Mr. Wu returned home. For the next few months, he often felt a churning in his stomach and tightness in his chest. He became emaciated and haggard. His face and lips were turning dark, and he often lost consciousness. Mr. Wu died on December 12, 2011, at the age of 48.

Case 23. Mr. Luo Jiangping Dies After Toxic Injection at Yunnan Province First Prison

Mr. Luo Jiangping and his family

Mr. Luo Jiangping of Panzhihua City was arrested on January 6, 2012, for distributing Falun Gong materials. He was sentenced to four and a half years in April 2012, and taken to the Yunnan First Prison on June 1, 2012. Because Mr. Luo refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards and inmates handcuffed him, beat him, and injected him with unknown drugs. He was also forced to work over ten hours every day. If he did not finish his work quota, he was deprived of sleep or placed in solitary confinement.

During repeated force-feeding sessions, the muscles in Mr. Luo’s mouth were injured and all of his lower teeth were knocked out. Very few of his upper teeth remained, and all were loose. He also suffered bloating and had intense pain in his internal organs. He became incontinent and his feet were swollen. He was weak and emaciated, and struggled to stand, sit, talk or even lift his head.

Mr. Luo was released on bail on December 23, 2013, due to his poor health. Needle holes were clearly seen on both of his arms. Each injection site had a bruise roughly two centimeters in diameter surrounding it. He died five days later, on December 28, 2013. He was 51.

Mr. Luo shortly before his death

Case 24. Mr. Xiao Zhanghe Dies After Drinking Toxic Tea

Mr. Xiao Zhanghe, 60 and from Dujiangyan City, was arrested on October 21, 2013 and taken to the Tianma Township Brainwashing Center. The police took him to the Comprehensive Management Office of the township government the next day. By his own account, the police brought him lunch. In the afternoon, a female staffer came and prepared tea for him. She urged him to have more tea as they talked.

At 5 p.m., Mr. Xiao suddenly could not speak or focus his mind. In this debilitated state, the police asked him to write statements to renounce Falun Gong, which he mindlessly followed. Two days later, the police continued to give him tea and Mr. Xiao experienced the same symptoms. In such a condition, he signed more statements, according to police orders.

After signing everything the police wanted, Mr. Xiao was allowed to return home. When he recovered, he returned to the government offices and declared that the statements he’d signed were invalid. He also questioned what kind of drug the police fed him. The police denied giving him any drugs.

A week later, Mr. Xiao had a sore throat and a hoarse voice. Large red patches appeared all over his body. The city hospital could not diagnose his condition so his family took him to Huaxi Hospital, which is the most advanced hospital in Sichuan Province.

At first, the hospital diagnosed Mr. Xiao with drug poisoning. Later, however, the diagnosis changed when the family told the hospital that Mr. Xiao was a Falun Gong practitioner. In a shocking reversal, the initial diagnosis was changed to “gallstones.”

The hospital claimed that the treatment required surgery and that it was hard to cure. They also stated that Mr. Xiao would probably die during or after the surgery.

The large red patches on Mr. Xiao’s body spread, and he passed away on May 22, 2014.

Case 25. Mr. Zhang Shixiang Dies After Involuntary Drug Administration at Jiazhou Prison

Mr. Zhang Shixiang, of Jianyang City, was arrested on November 4, 2008. While held at the Jianyang City Detention Center, he was forced to wear heavy shackles, which caused severe injury to his ankles. He was transferred to the Erehu Brainwashing Center on December 4.

Mr. Zhang was sentenced to six years on December 8, 2009 by the Jianyang City Court. He was given unknown drugs in Jiazhou Prison and the prison doctor threatened that he would die there if he didn’t renounce Falun Gong.

Mr. Zhang was released on November 3, 2014 on the brink of death. His body and legs were extremely swollen and bleeding. He died on December 4, 2014, one month after his release. He was 66.

Case 26. Ms. Xie Xia Dies After Involuntary Drug Administration at Xinjin Brainwashing Center

Ms. Xie Xia in her younger years

Ms. Xie Xia after she was drugged in detention

Ms. Xie Xia, a former piano teacher in Panzhihua City, was given one year of forced labor in 2000 and sentenced to three years in 2006. She was arrested again on May 28, 2013 while visiting her mother in the hospital, and was taken to the Xinjin Brainwashing Center in Chengdu two days later.

When Ms. Xie was released in early August 2013, her legs were swollen and her lower abdomen was bloated. She told her family that the brainwashing center guards laced her food with unknown drugs and also injected her with unknown drugs. Only when she was in serious condition did the guard release her. She knew that a practitioner who was given a toxic shot at the brainwashing center passed away shortly after she was released.

Ms. Xie struggled with failing health over the next few years. She became emaciated and her lower abdomen remained bloated. She died in the second half of 2016. By then, her face was greenish and her body showed bruising. She was 56.

Case 27. Disabled After Toxic Drug Administration at Qingyang District Hospital, Ms. Fang Hui Dies 16 Years Later

Ms. Fang Hui was a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Sichuan University in Chengdu City. She once rode a bicycle along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway to Lhasa and was awarded as one of the “top ten young warriors.” She was a member of the mountaineering team of Sichuan University.

Ms. Fang was arrested on the night of November 5, 2002. The police spent nearly an hour ransacking her home. Soon after that, she was sentenced to 3.5 and dismissed from her job.

Ms. Fang was arrested again and detained in the Chengdu First Detention Center in 2004. She became very weak from torture. Later, she was taken to the Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu and was crippled by injections. When she was released, she had systemic edema; her skin was stiff; her eyes could barely open; her speech was slurred; she often had unbearable headaches; she couldn’t lift her legs; and she easily fell when trying to walk.

Her family took her to the outpatient clinic of a major hospital, where a doctor said that her central nervous system had been damaged. The family asked how that could be, but the doctor would not tell them more.

Ms. Fang almost lost her ability to speak and was bedridden for many years. She passed away in March 2019.

Case 28. Mr. Chen Liqing Dies After Involuntary Drug Administration at Deyang Prison

Mr. Chen Liqing

Mr. Chen Liqing, of Pengzhou City, was arrested in March 2004 and brutally beaten over the course of four days. He was sentenced to three years on December 3, 2004, and admitted to the Deyang Prison in February 2005.

Mr. Chen refused to write statements to renounce Falun Gong and was beaten by the prison guards. Once, a guard kicked Mr. Chen in the inner thigh and groin. Another time, he had internal bleeding after being beaten and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. He was bedridden for over 20 days after that.

On another occasion, the prison guards directed inmates to lace Mr. Chen’s food and drink with drugs. Four months before his term ended, the guards injected him with toxic drugs, causing him to temporarily develop psychiatric symptoms. He also sweated profusely every day.

After Mr. Chen was released, the local police harassed him at home on a regular basis. In September 2021, the local community office ordered him to renounce Falun Gong, but he firmly refused.

The local social security office also suspended Mr. Chen’s pension after he was sentenced in September 2004. They never reinstated his pension. The lack of income made Mr. Chen’s life even harder after his prison release. He died on January 31, 2022.