After Just Being Released from a Forced Labour Camp, Authorities Hold Ms. Huang Zhenglan Against Her Will in a Mental Hospital

Name: Huang Zhenglan
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Address: Bake Town, Changshou District, Chongqing
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 3rd, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yanjia Mental Hospital, Changshou District
City: Chongqing
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labour, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, sexual assault, force-feedings, extortion, physical restraint, mental hospital, home ransacked, interrogation, detention, denial of toilet use

Ms. Huang Zhenglan, a 46-year-old practitioner from the Changshou District in Chongqing, was held in a mental hospital by agents from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) right after she was released from a forced labour camp.

Ms. Huang ended her prison term in the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp on February 3rd, 2010. Li Jinrong, secretary of the Bake Town Political and Judiciary Committee (formally known as the 610 Office) in the Changshou District and four agents met Ms. Huang at the camp. Li told Ms. Huang that they would take her home. Instead they took her to the Yanjia Mental Hospital and had her admitted as an inpatient in the second ward. The ward director asked Li to show the patient's address and documents verifying mental illness from the patient's neighbourhood committee. Li had the documents sent to the hospital on the afternoon of February 4th.

Ms. Huang has been repeatedly harassed and persecuted. This is the second time that the 610 Office has persecuted her by putting her in a mental hospital.

In 2000, she was arrested while she was appealing for the right to practise Falun Gong in Beijing. She was sentenced to four years and imprisoned at the Yongchuan Women's Prison.

In 2005, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour for upholding her belief in Falun Gong. She was tortured during her imprisonment. In the meantime, agents from the 610 Office threatened her family and forced her husband to divorce her.

After her release, the staff from the village committee, town government, and officers from the town police station frequently harassed her at her home. At around 11:00 a.m. on September 29th, 2007, Che Huaibing, head of the village, Dai Shangying; the judicial representative of Bake Town; and others arrested her and held her at a brainwashing centre in the Wangxiangtai Mountain Villa in the Yubei District of Chongqing. On October 6th, Chao Zhanyue, director of the Department of the People's Armed Forces in Bake Town; Dai Shangying; and others held her in the Yanjia Mental Hospital. They did not allow her to contact anyone and subjected her to unknown drugs. She was finally released because money ran out for the hospital charges.

In February 2009, Ms. Huang was arrested for distributing Falun Gong fliers in town, and was imprisoned in the Chongqing Chabao Women's Forced Labour Camp.

Li Jinrong, secretary of the Bake Town Political and Judiciary Committee (formally known as the 610 Office): 86-23-40794882 (Office), 86-23-40462042 (Home), 86-13098766689 (Mobile)
Che Huaibing, head of the village: 86-23-40791103, 86-13637766899 (Mobile)
Dai Shangying, judicial representative of Bake Town: 86-23-40794148
Chao Zhanyue, director of the Department of the People's Armed Forces, Bake Town: 86-23-40259198 (Home)
Li Zhirong, director of the town police station: 86-13002396566 (Mobile)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/11/217968.html