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Name: Li ChunlianChinese Name: 李春连Gender: MaleAge: UnknownCity: WuhanProvince: HubeiOccupation: UnknownDate of Death: November 11, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 16, 2022Most Recent Place of Detention: Wanji Psychiatric Hospital
Five Wuhan City, Hubei Province residents were arrested at a private home on June 16, 2022 for practicing Falun Gong. Two of them were held at a psychiatric hospital and subjected to involuntary drug administration. Both experienced significant weight loss and declining mental clarity. Mr. Li Chunlian suddenly passed away on November 11, 2024. Mr. Chen Jun, who suffered a heart attack and had a stent installed after his bail release, was recently sentenced to 7.5 years.
Mr. Li and Mr. Chen were both arrested at the latter’s home. Mr. Chen’s three other guests, Ms. Tian Huazhen, Ms. Zhang Jiaoe and Ms. Qiu Yongzhi, were seized at the private gathering as well.
The arresting officers from the Zhifang Police Station took the three female practitioners, all around 70, to the Wuhan City First Detention Center, and the two male practitioners to the Wanji Psychiatric Hospital. The Jiangxia District Procuratorate approved their arrests on July 22, 2022 and forwarded their cases to the Hongshan District Procuratorate in late September 2022. The latter indicted the practitioners in November 2022 and moved their cases to the Hongshan District Court.
Although the police filled out Mr. Li and Mr. Chen’s bail release documents in late July 2022, they refused to release them, citing an order from above. The practitioners’ families were allowed to visit them at the psychiatric hospital, after paying the police some fees.
During the visit, Mr. Chen’s family noted him being emaciated, and he revealed that he often fainted for unknown reasons. Similarly, Mr. Li also experienced significant weight loss. He was unable to recognize his family when they visited him in early October 2022.
With the two families’ persistent efforts to seek their release, both men returned home on April 8, 2023. Mr. Chen lost consciousness not long after and was resuscitated at the hospital. The doctor installed a stent in his heart.
As Mr. Li’s son has a disability and is unable to support himself, Mr. Li went back to work after his release, despite his weak physical condition. He suddenly passed away on November 11, 2024. While his family couldn’t afford and aren’t allowed to get an autopsy done on his body, they suspected that he died from the toxic drug given to him at the psychiatric hospital.
After a year of detention, the three female practitioners appeared in Hongshan District Court on October 13, 2023. It’s not clear whether they have been sentenced.
Mr. Chen was tried by the Hongshan District Court on September 25, 2024. His lawyer entered a not guilty plea for him. The judge sentenced him to 7.5 years at an unknown date.
The Wanji Psychiatric Hospital is a tertiary psychiatric hospital and a clinical trial base for new psychiatric drugs. The company’s full name is Wanji Biotechnology Development Wuhan Co., Ltd. It was established on February 13, 2017 with registered capital of 10 million yuan. Its social credit code is 91420105MA4KQXFU5W, and its legal representative is Zhu Hongqiao (朱红桥).
The Wanji Psychiatric Hospital claims to be a “comprehensive, all-round, and high-end medical mental health rehabilitation hospital,” focusing on “biotechnology, drug discovery, mental rehabilitation, treatment of substance dependence, and psychological counseling.”
The Chinese Communist Party is notorious for using psychiatric hospitals and psychotropic drugs to persecute mentally healthy Falun Gong practitioners and dissidents. A private enterprise, the Wanji Psychiatric Hospital’s participation in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners raised serious concerns of whether it’s doing any human experimentation of psychotropic drugs on the practitioners.
In the past 25 years, Mr. Chen has been repeatedly targeted for his faith in Falun Gong.
He was intercepted while on the way to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice his faith in 2001. He was escorted back to Wuhan and detained for 15 days.
He was arrested again in 2002 for distributing Falun Gong materials on a bus. He was held at the Zhifang Detention Center for 15 days.
His next arrest was in early June 2003, for hanging a banner with information about Falun Gong. He was held at the Shizishan Detention Center for over a month and later given a 15-month term at the Hewan Forced Labor Camp.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Psychiatric Abuse of and Human Experiments on Falun Gong Practitioners