Ms. Shen Xueya Falls and Dies after Being Mentally Traumatised from Forcibly-Administered Drugs at Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp

Name: Shen Xueya
Gender: Female
Age: 55
Address: Residential Building, State Taxation Bureau in Fengjie County
Occupation: Accountant of State Taxation Bureau in Fengjie County
Date of Death: March 1st, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 2007
Most Recent Place of Detention: Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Chongqing
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labour, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, beatings, hanging up, imprisonment, denial of toilet use

Unknown drugs were forcibly administered to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shen Xueya at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp. As a result, she developed a mental disorder. On March 1st, 2009, from a semiconscious state, she fell to the floor and died.

Before Ms. Shen Xueya practised Falun Gong, she had severe rheumatism, and suffered a mental collapse. She also had a bad temper, and had the desire to excel at the expense of others. In early 1999, she began practising Falun Gong. Due to the practice, six months later she had recovered and become good-tempered. Following the principles of Falun Gong, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, she tried to be a good person and persist in practising Falun Gong.

In July 2007, Ms. Shen was speaking to people about the innocent Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted. She was arrested by officers from the Fengjie County Police Department and Domestic Security Division. She was taken to Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp and sentenced to three years of forced labour.

Chongqing's Women's Forced Labour Camp is terrifying to behold. Any Falun Gong practitioner who goes to the labour camp, no matter how old, whether she is strong or weak, is forced to attend a "group training session." This session acts as a cover to beautify the labour camp, but in fact it is a place where guards with no human nature torture good people. They use all kinds of methods to create stress. The goal is to break the practitioners' wills and cause mental anguish. Guards have used the following torture methods to mistreat Falun Gong practitioners: "Standing in a pose," military squat, unknown drugs, physical punishment, extended exposure to sun, being suspended with hands cuffed behind the back, force-feeding with highly concentrated salt water, sealing mouth with tape, food deprivation, denial of toilet use, and sleep deprivation. These methods don't leave scars on the body, but practitioners will feel increasing pain until they can no longer endure. Guards also force inmates to take unknown drugs. Practitioners are so brutally tortured that they don't even look like human beings after completing the group training.

After Ms. Shen was taken to the labour camp, the guards used a variety of torture methods, but she was not "transformed [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]." She did not give up her belief. The guards finally forced her to take some unknown drugs. Each day, they forced her to take a white pill. As a result, she developed a mental disorder and was in a continuous semiconscious state.

After a year and a half of torture with the unidentified drugs, Ms. Shen was mentally traumatised. The guards saw that she could not be used to do labour, so she was released on medical parole in February 2009. At home, there were only elderly people who could not take care of her. On the morning of March 1st, 2009, she fell down in the building and died.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/6/15/225430.html