Ms. Pan Chenhong Mentally Disabled by Torture at Wangcun Forced Labour Camp

In November 2008, the police from Longshui Road Police Station in Laixi City took away practitioner Ms. Pan Chenhong. She was sent to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province. In less than four months, she became mentally disabled due to torture she suffered there.

39-year-old Ms. Pan Chenhong lived in Laixi City. On the morning of November 27th, 2008, she and Sun Lin were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong at Zhougezhuang, and were caught by the police. Ms. Pan was detained at Laixi Detention Centre for 15 days and then sent to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp for one year of forced labour.

At the Labour Camp, Ms. Pan suffered severe mental and physical persecution. In less than four months, the labour camp tortured the originally healthy woman to the point that she became mentally disabled. The labour camp feared being held responsible and told her family to pick her up. Moreover, the labour camp extorted 2,000 yuan¹ from her family to pay for the medical treatment she received at the labour camp.

Pan Chenhong is now emaciated, her eyes are sunken, her complexion is pale and her voice is weak. Her spirit is unstable, she has delusions, and she is too weak to walk. Upon seeing an acquaintance, she always cries without saying a word. Sometimes at home she cries out and screams, sometimes she tries to go out without wearing clothes.

Seeing Ms. Pan in such a state due to the torture, her parents are in deep agony. Ms. Pan's husband had to borrow money to send her to a mental hospital.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/4/24/199540.html