(Minghui.org) A 68-year-old woman in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, was subjected to involuntary drug administration, force-feeding, and gang beating while she was detained for practicing Falun Gong. Her family filed complaints against her perpetrators.
Ms. Wang Shuhua
Ms. Wang Shuhua, an award-winning former teacher and later vice principal at Daxing Township Middle School in Changtu County, Liaoning Province, began practicing Falun Gong in May 1998. She soon recovered from her decades-long hepatitis A. After the communist regime started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, she refused to renounce her faith and was given three years of forced labor in 2002.
Her latest arrest took place on August 23, 2025, after she talked to Liu Yuqing about Falun Gong near a residential area. Liu grabbed her collar and reported her to the police.
Ms. Wang was taken to the Wanlian Police Station and had her home raided hours later. She was admitted to the Shenyang City First Detention Center around 4 a.m. on August 24, 2025. The Dadong District Procuratorate issued her a formal arrest warrant ten days later and she now faces indictment for her faith.
Admitted to Detention Center Despite Dangerously High Blood Pressure
At 12 a.m. on August 24, 2025, Ms. Wang was taken to the Shenyang 739 Hospital for a physical exam. Her systolic blood pressure registered at 210 mmHg (a normal reading is 120 mmHg or lower). The police however made the doctor record 194 mmHg on her exam report and drove her to the Shenyang City First Detention Center. While en-route there, officer Dong Chenghe shoved a hypertension pill into Ms. Wang’s mouth. She spit it out.
A tall, male doctor on duty at the detention center measured Ms. Wang’s blood pressure. He did not announce the number and simply said, “It’s so high and how can we accept her?” He told the police to take her to the Shenyang Fourth People’s Hospital for another physical exam. By the time they got there, it was past 2 a.m. The doctor there also did not tell Ms. Wang what her blood pressure reading was. Her family later saw on her medical records it was 181 mmHg.
The doctor suggested Ms. Wang rest for three days. The police said they had to get her detained even if they gave her IV injections. The doctor said they could give her one hypertension pill first. The police forced her to swallow two pills before they took her to the detention center again.
The detention center doctor asked the police why there was no record of Ms. Wang’s blood pressure being lowered to a normal range. The police said they gave her IV injections. She refuted this and said she was given two pills instead. The doctor measured her blood pressure on the spot but did not announce the reading. He and the police then had her formally admitted to the detention center around 4 a.m. on August 24, 2025.
Forced to Take Pills Every Day
Since her admission, the detention center has been forcing Ms. Wang to take hypertension pills. Guard Tian Lei pinched her cheeks to force open her mouth and put in the pills. She next poured in water to force Ms. Wang to swallow them. Tian later instructed the inmates to force-feed the pills to Ms. Wang. They also measured her blood pressure 3-4 times every day.
Ms. Wang felt drowsy after taking the pills. She also suffered memory decline, severe insomnia, and anxiety.
Gang Beating and Force-feeding
Ms. Wang went on a hunger strike on the morning of September 6, 2025 to protest the illegal arrest, detention and involuntary drug administration. Inmate Du Yan in the same Cell 302 reported this to guard Tian. Tian soon came and told all the inmates, “I’ll see if you are capable of making her eat again.” The inmates then verbally abused Ms. Wang and ordered her to eat.
That night she was taken to the guards’ office. About 4 guards tied her up in a bed. The detention center doctor force-fed her crushed food and hypertension pills through a feeding tube. She felt nauseous and vomited the tube out twice. Each time the doctor reinserted it. She was extremely uncomfortable and burped. She felt something stirring in her stomach.
Ms. Wang requested to see detention center director Zhao Ying. Zhao came and said, “If you refuse to eat, we have to force-feed you.” She also taunted Ms. Wang, “Do you enjoy being force-fed?”
Around 5:00 p.m. on September 10, 2025, Ms. Wang refused to eat dinner and was beaten by inmates Jin Yu, Zhang Siyi, Ma Ke, Xu Xiaohang and a woman surnamed Ji. They pressed her down on the ground. Jin sat on her legs while the others punched and kicked her. They also hit her on the head with bottles filled with water. She had multiple egg-sized bumps on her head, stretching from the crown of her head to her temples. The pain persists to this day.
That night Ms. Wang was moved to cell 408. Guard Qi Jiatong forced her to wear a red vest every day and arranged inmates Wu Ying and He Jing to monitor her around the clock. She was also very weak and staggered while walking, but Qi still forced her to sit on a small stool every day.
At the time of this report, Ms. Wang is still subjected to around-the-clock monitoring, involuntary drug administration and force-feeding every day.
Family Seeks Justice
Upon learning about her abuse, Ms. Wang’s family visited the detention center on September 8, 2025, to request a meeting with the director and submit an urgent request to ensure her safety and hold responsible those involved in her abuse. The director refused to meet with them.
Captain Chuo Xiaodong denied the fact that Ms. Wang was force-fed medication, much less provide a legal basis of involuntary drug administration as her family demanded. He claimed the detention center admitted her legally. When her family questioned as to why Ms. Wang was not allowed to rest for three days as indicated in her medical records, Chuo said the doctor’s advice was one-sided and useless.
Instructor Jiang Shuang said she was in charge of the women’s division and she could attest that high blood pressure was not among the three conditions that rendered a suspect inadmissible to the detention center. She said forcing Ms. Wang to take hypertension pills was for her good; otherwise she might have a hemorrhage and die.
Ms. Wang’s family asked why the detention center refused to release her on bail given her high blood pressure. Jiang claimed that she did not meet bail conditions.
Jiang refused to reveal her office phone number or that of the prosecutor-in-residence. She only gave Ms. Wang’s family a main number for the detention center. She also declined to disclose more information about guard Tian, one of her subordinates. She insisted there was legal basis for her decisions but when pressed to show legal documents she said, “Don’t you have a lawyer? Ask your lawyer to find out about the legal basis!”
Jiang reiterated that Ms. Wang’s family had every right to file complaints against her, guard Tian, or even the detention center. She would welcome investigations by the higher-up, the court, or other relevant government agencies.
A woman with the badge number 104594 was with Jiang. She said she was a doctor at the detention center but was not involved in Ms. Wang’s involuntary drug administration. She refused to reveal her name or physician’s license because the family “had no right to such information.” She further claimed that the detention center was allowed to admit suspects with systolic blood pressure higher than 200 mmHg. She said she suspected that the family’s lawyer gave them inaccurate information about the detention center.
Li Ming, vice director of the detention center, refused to disclose Ms. Wang’s blood pressure which was measured during her admission and said the family’s claim that she was admitted despite her high blood pressure lacked evidence. Like his subordinates, he firmly denied having admitted Ms. Wang illegally.
Li added that they had to force-feed Ms. Wang because she refused to take the pills. He claimed that her blood pressure stabilized and thus did not meet the requirements for release on bail.
Another doctor, named Zhao Yannan, showed the family a copy of Ms. Wang’s medical records of her being seen at an outside hospital on September 8, 2025, the day of her family’s visit to the detention center. Li did not allow the family to take a picture of the records. He asked them to sign the communication records of the meeting but also refused to give them a copy of it. As for Ms. Wang’s other medical records, he said he could only share them with other government agencies, but not any individual.
Li promised the family that he’d do further investigation and asked them to wait for his call. When he did not call, the family returned to the detention center on September 11, 2025. Li met with them and still promised to discuss with others whether to disclose further information about Ms. Wang’s detention. He asked her family to return on September 15, only to call them that day saying that he could no longer meet due to other commitments.
Ms. Wang’s family filed complaints against Li and other perpetrators for violating the Criminal Law, including Article 234 (intentional injury), Article 248 (abuse in custody), Article 397 (abuse of power), Article 238 (illegal detention), Article 243 (false accusation and framing), Article 251 (deprivation of citizens' freedom of religious belief), and Article 399 (abuse of power for personal gain).
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Category: Torture of Women
