Announcement by China Mental Health Watch: Investigating Mental Torture and Misuse of Mental Institutions in the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China
1. Cause For Establishing the Organization Ever since the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners began
on July 20, 1999, the media and human rights organizations around the world
continuously reported on the Chinese government's cruelty towards Falun Gong
practitioners, including psychiatric abuse. According to incomplete data, about
1,000 healthy Falun Gong practitioners were forcibly sent to mental
institutions, and many were forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs. They
received forced electro-shock and some were tied up and force-fed for long
periods of time. At least 10 practitioners died from this type of maltreatment.
Many of these practitioners were held in hospitals for as long as two and a half
years. At least ninety mental institutions in China participated in this
particular part of the persecution. On June 23, 2000, The Washington Post reported the
case of Su Gang, a Falun Gong-practicing computer engineer at Qilu Petrochemical
Corporation in Weifang, Shandong Province. Su Gang died after spending a week in
the Changle Mental Hospital, where doctors injected him twice daily with an
unknown substance (1). In March 2001, the Falun Dafa Information Center sent a
special report on the abuse of psychiatric treatment to the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights (2). In the report were detailed
descriptions of the participants of the persecution and the drugs they used to
torture the Falun Gong practitioners. The report also listed detailed accounts
of more than 300 healthy Falun Gong practitioners who were detained in mental
institutions in China. This report was sent to the Review Committee of the World
Psychiatric Association with the request for this international society to
investigate and help stop the violations of international psychiatric standards
of practice and human rights violations. In the spring of 2000, Robin Munro, a senior research fellow
at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, published a
long report based on research entitled, "Judicial Psychiatry in China and
Its Political Abuses" (in the Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Volume 14,
No.1 (3).) He summarized about 3,000 cases of abuse of psychiatry in China
during the past two decades and current increases of new cases in the past three
years caused by the persecution of Falun Gong. On August 26, The Washington Post reported its secret
interview of Fang Lihong conducted in China (4). Fang Lihong was a police
officer and a Falun Gong practitioner. He was fired and detained in detention
centers and brainwashing centers, as well as in Kangning Psychiatric Hospital in
the city of Anshan, during which time he was forced to take drugs. He eventually
died from torture in Fujian Province. In August 2002, Human Rights Watch and the Geneva Initiative
on Psychiatry jointly published a detailed report on China's use of psychiatric
incarceration. In the report were cases of persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners published in psychiatric journals in China. The report pointed out
that the mainland Chinese government treats Falun Gong practitioners who persist
in their belief as mentally ill, which does not conform to the international
standard for diagnosing mental illness (5). In August 2002, during the XII World Psychiatric Congress
(held every three years) in the Japanese city of Yokohama, AP and Yomiuri
Newspaper of Japan reported Wu Lili's appeal at the press conference for the
release of her sister Wu Xiaohua (6), an associate professor of Hefei
Construction Engineering College in Anhui Province who was being detained in
Hefei Mental Hospital. Wu Xiaohua was twice sent to mental institutions and
suffered abuse and forced drug injections. Her life was at risk. Before her
arrest, Wu Xiaohua was a mentally and physically healthy woman, but after being
detained in the mental hospital, she could barely get up from the bed. In May 2001, the American Psychiatric Association's Committee
on Misuse and Abuse of Psychiatry sent a request to the APA's Board of Trustees
at its annual meeting in Chicago for an investigation by the World Psychiatric
Association (WPA) of the psychiatric abuses in China (7); in July 2001, at its
Annual General Meeting, the Royal College of Psychiatrists in U.K.
overwhelmingly passed a resolution to investigate evidence of political abuse of
psychiatry in China by requesting the World Psychiatric Association to send a
fact-finding team to China (8). On August 26, 2002, during the XII World Psychiatric Congress
in Yokohama, Japan, members from about 120 psychiatric organizations around the
world passed a resolution to send an independent international investigative
team to China to investigate psychiatric abuses in the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners and other political dissidents in mental institutions (9). As a consequence of the systematic persecution by the Chinese
government during the past four years, thousands of practitioners have suffered
mental abuse, harassment, discrimination, loss of employment, and sometimes
being forced to become homeless. They have lost their basic rights. Many were
forced to leave their jobs or were expelled from universities or even high
school. Their families were forced to pay large amounts of penalties, driving
them to financial bankruptcy. This persecution, which aims to financially break
practitioners, along with defamation of character, and physical and mental
torture has taken a toll on their mental health. Many have been driven to mental
breakdowns. The persecution has cost many lives. Over 10 practitioners have died
because of psychiatric abuse. Many female practitioners were gang raped, beaten
and killed. Families have been broken up and many family members have suffered
the unending anguish of not knowing the fate of their loved ones or having to
face identifying in the morgue the bodies of their children, siblings or parents
murdered by torture because they would not renounce their beliefs. There
is no age discrimination, as children have also suffered persecution such as
being detained with their mothers in detention centers. Even a baby was tortured
to death. Aged parents of practitioners have died because of the pain from
finding out about the death of their children or from living in fear of their
own persecution. Practitioners, whether they are in labor camps or have been
abducted from their work places or are in detention centers, are subjected to
"brainwashing" along with sleep deprivation and physical abuse beyond
physical endurance. The purpose is to attack the conscience, weaken it, confuse
the practitioner and then force them to renounce their beliefs. Many have become
delirious and have lost control of their emotions and their mental capacities.
The unending brutal torture attacks aim to destroy the clear conscience. The
persecutors use deceit, lies and distorted statements. In this state of mind
some practitioners have signed a pledge to renounce their practice. At times
the torture reaches such an extent that physical and psychological death is
imminent. Without sleep and food they are pushed to a mental breakdown. Some
cannot even recognize their families. Some suffer severe depression, post
traumatic stress disorders or psychosis. They became mentally incapacitated. Those who were forced to renounce their beliefs, when later
they regained their consciousness, often realize that what they had given up was
more precious than life, as what they had given up was their faith. Even after
they make public announcements revoking these renunciation pledges, the regret,
guilt, shame, mental pain and anguish is unbearable, sometimes driving them to a
long and profound depression and leaving pernicious and invisible sequela. Whereas, the emotional trauma, the loss of faith and dignity
can cause long lasting debilitating sequela along with pain and suffering. Many
victims who survive the torture have shown signs and symptoms of psychiatric
diagnoses such as post traumatic stress disorder, depression or psychosis
causing disturbances in their normal functioning; Whereas, this persecution of the mind and spirit of the
individual consists of an attack on humanity; Whereas, cases about China's abuse of psychiatric treatment
in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners reported by international media and
human rights organizations come from reliable sources; the reports are detailed
and objective, and they captured the attention of the world; Whereas China's psychiatric abuse in the persecution of
mentally healthy Falun Gong practitioners is unprecedented in terms of the
number of victims, hospitals involved, the brutality of methods used and the
severity of the consequences; Whereas the Chinese government persecutes Falun Gong
practitioners in mental hospitals, it labels mentally healthy Falun Gong
practitioners with mental illness by using the media and creates
misunderstanding, confusion, prejudice, discrimination and even hatred toward
Falun Gong practitioners among the people, which allows, promotes and sustains
the persecution of Falun Gong; Whereas in the reported cases, the Mainland Chinese
government abuses the practice of psychiatry and deprives Falun Gong
practitioners of their basic human rights endowed by heaven; Whereas in 1991, the United Nations General Assembly adopted
the principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the
improvement of mental health care, emphasizing care in the community and the
rights of individuals with mental disorders, with diagnosable mental illness
recognized by the international psychiatric community: Principle 4.1, "A determination that a person has a
mental illness shall be made in accordance with internationally accepted medical
standards", 4.2, "A determination of mental illness shall never be
made on the basis of political, economic or social status, or membership of a
cultural, racial or religious group, or any other reason not directly relevant
to mental health status", and 4.3 "Family or professional conflict, or
non-conformity with moral, social, cultural or political values or religious
beliefs prevailing in a person's community, shall never be a determining factor
in diagnosing mental illness." (10) Principle 10.1 states, "Medication shall meet the best
health needs of the patient, shall be given to a patient only for therapeutic or
diagnostic purposes and shall never be administered as a punishment or for the
convenience of others." Principle 11.11 points out, "Physical restraint or
involuntary seclusion of a patient shall not be employed except in accordance
with the officially approved procedures of the mental health facility and only
when it is the only means available to prevent immediate or imminent harm to the
patient or others." Principle 11.16 states, "In the cases specified in
paragraphs 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 above, the patient or his or her personal
representative, or any interested person, shall have the right to appeal to a
judicial or other independent authority concerning any treatment given to him or
her." Principle 13 points out, "Every patient in a mental
health facility shall, in particular, have the right to full respect for his or
her: Freedom of communication...Freedom of religion or belief." Whereas, The Declaration of Hawaii (11) adopted by the World
Psychiatric Association in 1977 and the Madrid Declaration on Ethical Standards
For Psychiatric Practice clearly state (11), "As practitioners of medicine,
psychiatrists must be aware of the ethical implications of being a physician,
and of the specific ethical demands of the specialty of psychiatry. As members
of society, psychiatrists must advocate for fair and equal treatment of the
mentally ill, for social justice and equity for all", "When the
patient is incapacitated and/or unable to exercise proper judgment because of a
mental disorder, or gravely disabled or incompetent, the psychiatrists should
consult with the family and, if appropriate, seek legal counsel, to safeguard
the human dignity and the legal rights of the patient. No treatment should be
provided against the patient's will, unless withholding treatment would endanger
the life of the patient and/or those who surround him or her. Treatment must
always be in the best interest of the patient", "Psychiatrists shall
not take part in any process of mental or physical torture, even when
authorities attempt to force their involvement in such acts." Whereas, the Chinese government and China Psychiatric
Association currently refuse to admit the abuse of psychiatric treatment, now,
any so-called "investigation" conducted or supported by the Chinese
government or China Psychiatric Association would lose authenticity and lead to
failure of investigation and misleading results; Whereas China's violation of international principles of
psychiatric treatment violates the ethics of psychiatry and seriously hinders
the dignity of the profession; Whereas the Nuremberg Trial successfully convicted and
sentenced German doctors who participated in the persecution of Jews to death
and heavy prison terms after World War II (12); Therefore, an Investigation
Committee on China's Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners abusing psychiatry
consisting of psychiatric doctors, lawyers and professional investigators, will
conduct an independent investigation. We hope conscientious psychiatrists,
mental health workers, hospital staff, victims, their families and friends in
and outside China will provide us with links and evidence. Let us work together
to protect basic human rights, freedom of thought, conscience, and belief, and
to stop psychiatric abuse as a method of persecution of innocent people. We will provide the names of hospitals, doctors, related
personnel and people who assisted the hospital in the persecution, including
police, the victims' work unit and their families to related international
organizations and the media. We will determinedly pursue their criminal
responsibilities. Contact: E-mail: contacts@upholdjustice.org How to report: Phone: 1-617-325-3481 [World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong] To
investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions, organizations, and
individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong; to bring such
investigation, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and deep we have
to search, to full closure; to exercise fundamental principles of humanity; and
to restore and uphold justice in society. Torture Death Cases: Su Gang (32 years old, Zibo City, Shandong Province) Ma Yanfang Lu Hongfeng
Zhao Fulan Case 1, Changle Mental Hospital, Weifang City, Shandong Province Su Gang, 32, was a computer engineer working at the Instrument and Meter
Unit of the Alkene Plant of Qilu Petro-Chemical Company in Zhibo City. The
security officers of the Alkene Plant forcibly sent Su into Changle Mental
Hospital simply because he practiced Falun Gong. In the hospital, Su was
forcibly injected daily with overdoses of drugs that destroy the central nervous
system. After nine days of torture in the mental hospital, Su Gang was
discharged home. At this time, Su looked sick, with a dull look in his eyes, and
he was expressionless. He was very weak, slow in reacting, and had muscle
rigidity. On the morning of June 10, 2000, Su Gang died from heart failure as a
consequence of the torture he suffered. (Details: Appendix 1) Case 2. No. 7 People's Hospital of Hangzhou City, a mental hospital Shi Bei, female, 49 years old, lived in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province. She was
an employee of Fuyang City government in Zhejiang Province. After the Chinese
government pronounced Falun Gong illegal in July 1999, Shi Bei and her husband
had to report to the police department almost every month. One afternoon in mid May 1998, Shi Bei was forcibly taken away from home by
several plainclothes police and was not released until midnight. In May 2000, Shi Bei was involuntarily admitted to the No. 7 People's
Hospital of Hangzhou City, (mental hospital) by Fuyang City Police Department.
Under pressure from the police, the doctors and nurses injected her with
supposedly "sedatives." To prevent her from speaking, the police
didn't allow her to eat anything for a whole week. Shi Bei was starved to death.
On September 10, 2000, Shi Bei died as consequence of torture suffered at the
No. 7 People's Hospital of Hangzhou City. Case 3. Ankang Hospital of Shenyang City Song Xiangzhen, female, 46 years old, lived in Shenyang City. Zhang
Jianlin, the hospital head and Xie Xiaobin, the chief physician undertook brutal
and inhumane force-feedings on Song Xiangzhen. They inserted a rigid plastic
tube, which was larger than the normal size of the human's nostril, through her
nose into her stomach. Although this caused bleeding in her nose and stomach,
Zhang Jianlin ordered that they continue the force-feeding. Refusing to
cooperate, this practitioner bit off the plastic tube. Zhang Jianlin viciously
beat her, with drug addicts assisting her, until Song Xiangzhen's face was
seriously injured and deformed. Song Xiangzhen lost consciousness and died. Responsible People and Work Units, and Their Phone Numbers for Investigation: Shenyang City Police Department Ankang Hospital, telephone number:
86-24-89347972 Hospital head, Zhang Jianlin, female, 30 years old, originally a guard from
Shenyang City Detention Center; Chief physician, Xie Xiaobin, male; Drug
addicts: Gao Ming, and Dong Hongtao; Shenyang City Detention Center telephone
number: 86-24-23705590 Head of the Detention Center: He (first name unknown); Taochang Police
Station in Shenyang City, telephone number, 86-24-88113195 Case 4. Xi'an City Police Department Ankang Jail Hospital, Shaanxi
Province Sun Yuncheng was an employee of a satellite-tracking center. At Xi'an
City Police Department Ankang Jail Hospital, Shaanxi Province, police doctors
tortured her in various ways and injected her with unknown drugs. When she did
not cooperate with drug injections, the police hit her in the face. Each time
before she was injected, she was bound to a bed for about ten hours, which
caused her hands to bruise. Sometimes she was left to sleep on a bare bed with
no quilts or sheets and was not allowed to use the toilet, leaving urine in her
trousers or on the bed. During her hunger strike, she frequently vomited yellow
fluids, and her urine was red. It was impossible for her to go to sleep at night
and she could not swallow her saliva. Even in such a situation, she was
force-fed by the policemen. Sometimes the tube was inserted into her trachea.
Almost every time, her nose or mouth would bleed because of the tube insertion.
Once the police failed to insert the tube into her mouth after over ten tries,
and the angry head nurse Liu Qi fiercely hit Sun Yuncheng in her mouth. Responsible People and Work Unit for Investigation: Xi'an City Police Department Ankang Jail Hospital, Shaanxi Province Head nurses: Liu Qi, Dong xx and Chen xx; Section chiefs: Wei Yujun,
Hong Kui Case 5. Xi'an City Police Department Ankang Jail Hospital, Shaanxi Province Zhang Jinlan, female, 53 years old, was illegally sent to the Ankang Jail
Hospital in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, where she went on a hunger strike to
protest the persecution. A police doctor injected her with an unknown drug that
quickly caused her whole body to become paralyzed, and she lost consciousness.
In this condition, the police injected her with unknown drugs for seven days.
Nobody was on site to nurse her. In the first days of these injections her lower
body started to fester. After seven or eight days of these injections, she
almost died. Only then did the hospital send a "critical situation
notice" to her family, and she was discharged home. Now, she is paralyzed,
bedridden and unable to recognize people. Her home is still under "610
Office" surveillance and her family phone is tapped. III. Related Mental Hospitals to Investigate 1. Anhui Province Female Labour Camp and Anhui Province Mental Hospital,
Anhui Province 2. No. 261 Mental Hospital, People's Liberation Army, Beijing 3. Beijing Northern Suburban Rehabilitation Center, Beijing 4. Daliushu Mental Hospital (Dabeiyao Town), Chaoyang District, Beijing 5. Hanzhuang Mental Hospital, Pinggu, Beijing 6. Qinglongqiao Mental Hospital, Haiding, Beijing 7. Anding Hospital (a mental hospital), Beijing 8. Zhoukoudian Psychiatric Hospital, Fangshan, Beijing 9. Huilongguan Hospital (a mental hospital), Beijing 10. Hefei City Mental Hospital, Anhui Province 11. No. 1 Mental Hospital, Chongqing City, Sichuan 12. Pibaping Mental Hospital, Chongqing City, Sichuan 13. Xiemachang Mental Hospital (Beibei), Chongqing City, Sichuan 14. Cangshan Mental Hospital, Fujian Province 15. Weiwu County Mental Hospital, Gansu Province 16. Huizhou City Mental Hospital, Guangdong Province 17. Fangcun Mental Hospital (Guangzhou City), Guangdong Province 18. Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Hospital (Guangzhou City), Guangdong
Province 19. Guangxi Army Mental Hospital, (Liuzhoulong), Guilin, Guangxi Province 20. 191 Hospital (a mental hospital of the Army), Guijiang, Guangxi 21. Longqianshan Mental Hospital, Liuzhou, Guangxi 22. Shengli Oil Field No. 8 Division's Mental Hospital, Hebei Province 23. Hebei Medical University No. 5 Hospital, Psychiatry and Hygiene Division,
Hebei Province 24. Feixiang Mental Hospital, Hebei Province 25. Ankang Hospital (Yuehe), a mental hospital run by police, Tangshan City,
Hebei Province 26. No. 2 Hospital, Psychiatry Division, Hebei Province 27. No. 5 Hospital, Psychiatry Ward, Hebei Province 28. No. 6 Mental Hospital, Baoding, Hebei 29. Shalingzi Mental Hospital, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province 30. Shijiazhuang City Mental Hospital, Hebei Province 31. Handan City Mental Hospital, Hebei Province 32. Tangshan Psychiatric Hospital (5th Hospital), Tangshan, Hebei
Province 33. Jingbei Mental Hospital, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province 34. Jiamusi City Mental Hospital, Heilongjiang Province 35. A mental hospital in Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province 36. No. 2 Affiliated Mental Hospital of Xinxiang Medical Research Hospital,
Henan Province 37. A mental hospital in Kaifeng City, Henan Province 38. Macheng Mental Hospital, Hubei Province 39. Xiaogan City Mental Hospital, Hubei Province 40. Wuhan University Yatai Mental Hospital (former No. 1 Affiliated Hubei
Province Hospital), Hubei Province 41. Changsha City Mental Hospital, Hunan Province 42. Hunan Province Mental Hospital (94 Chiling Road, Changsha, Hunan) 43. A mental hospital in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province 44. No. 3 People's Hospital, Mental Section, Wujin County, Jiangsu Province 45. Chengbei Mental Hospital, Kunshun, Jiangsu 46. Jinjiang City Mental Hospital, Jiangsu Province 47. Wutaishan Mental Hospital, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province 48. Longgang Mental Hospital, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province 49. Nanjing Brain Hospital (former mental hospital), Jiangsu Province 50. Qinglongshan Mental Hospital, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province 51. A mental hospital in Shanghai, Jiangsu Province 52. Kaixuan Hospital (Xiaonan Mental Hospital), Changchun City, Jilin
Province 53. Jilin City Mental Hospital, Jilin Province 54. A mental hospital in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province 55. Shulan City Mental Hospital, Jilin Province 56. Siping City Mental Hospital, Jilin Province 57. Songyuan Division of Yiaonan Mental Hospital, Jilin Province 58. No. 102 Mental Hospital, Treatment Center for Mental Diseases, Changzhou,
Jiangsu Province 59. Changzhou Mental Hospital, Jiangsu Province 60. Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital, Section 6, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 61. Xuzhou Mental Hospital, Jiangsu Province 62. Dalian Drug Rehabilitation Center, Liaoning 63. Tangjiafang Mental Hospital, Anshan City, Liaoning Province 64. Xiaolingzi Psychiatric Hospital, Anshan, Liaoning Province 65. Yingkou City Mental Hospital, Liaoning Province 66. A mental hospital in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province 67. Lushun City Mental Hospital, Liaoning Province 68. Tiexi District Mental Hospital, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province 69. Lingwu Mental Hospital, Ningxia Province 70. Xi'an City Police Department Ankang Jail Hospital, Shaanxi Province 71. Xianyang Mental Hospital, Shaanxi Province 72. Laixi City Mental Hospital, Shandong Province 73. Beiluo Town Mental Hospital, Shouguang City, Shandong Province 74. Jining City Mental Hospital, Shandong Province 75. No. 3 People's Hospital of Weifang for Mental Illness, Ward 3, Weifang,
Shandong Province 76. Changle Mental Hospital, Shandong Province 77. Jining City Daizhuang Mental Hospital, Shandong Province 78. People's Hospital, Psychiatry Division, Qishui County, Shandong Province 79. Qilin Town Psychiatric Treatment Center, Linzi District, Zibo, Shandong
Province 80. Zhucheng City Mental Hospital, Shandong Province 81. Weifang Rehabilitation Hospital-Mental Patients' Ward, Weicheng District,
Weifang City, Shandong Province 82. Jiaozhou Mental Hospital, Qingdao City, Shandong Province 83. A mental hospital in Jimo City (Qingdao), Shandong Province 84. China-Korea Mental Hospital, Laoshan, Shandong 85. Qixia Mental Illness Rehabilitation Center (Psychiatric Recovery), Yantai
City, Shandong Province 86. Yantai Psychological Rehabilitation Center (former Laiyang Mental
Hospital), Yantai City, Shandong Province 87. Beimen Mental Hospital, Suining City, Sichuan Province 88. No. 6 Hospital (a mental hospital), Pingdu City, Shandong Province 89. Shandong Provincial Mental Hospital, Jinan, Shandong 90. Laiyang Mental Hospital, Laiyang, Shandong 91. Zhongshan Mental Hospital, Laoshan, Shandong Province 92. Linyi Mental Hospital, Shandong 93. Mental Hospital of Jiaozhou (also called Jiaozhou Psychological Recovery
Center), Jiaozhou, Shandong 94. Mental Illness Section, Kunlun Hospital, Zibo Mineral Bureau, Shandong 95. No. 5 People's Hospital (former mental hospital), Zichuan District, Zibo
City, Shandong Province 96. The Rehabilitation Hospital under Civil and Administration Bureau of
Weifang City, Shandong Province 97. A drug rehabilitation center, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province 98. Pengzhou City Mental Hospital, Sichuan Province 99. Xiemachang Mental Hospital, Ore Mine Sanatorium, Mental Illness
Division), Chongqing, Sichuan Province 100. Beimen Mental Hospital, Suining 101. Hemujing Mental Hospital, Xinji City 102. A mental hospital in Xinjiang (autonomous region) 103. Kangning Hospital (Kangzhuang Mental Hospital), Ningbo City, Zhejiang
Province 104. No. 7 People's Hospital (a psychiatric hospital), Hangzhou City,
Zhejiang Province IV. To be investigated: Zhang Honglin: From September 10 to 29, 2001, Zhang Honglin went to nine
cities and districts in Fujian Province for the fifth time to assist the local
"610 Offices" to directly persecute Falun Gong practitioners. He was
one of the earliest propagandists to support the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners in mental hospitals. He actively requested to participate in
first-hand persecution and he actively planned for the persecution. He published
the following suggestions: 1. Central government organizes experienced local psychiatrists to diagnose
Falun Gong practitioners with mental illnesses 2. First, weaken Falun Gong practitioners with psychiatric methods, and then
"transform" them. Main crime: Slander articles: 1. "'Falun Gong'..." published on People's Daily on February
2, 2001. 2. "Professionals Suggest After Studying Many Cases: for 'Falun
Gong'..." published on March 7th issue of People's Daily
and 103rd issue of Information Collection. 3. "Zhang Honglin, medical doctor and research fellow of China Academy
of Traditional Chinese Medicine thinks..." published on April 9 Beijing
Daily 5414th issue of Internal Reference. 4. "Talk About 'Falun Gong'..." A TV program at CCTV, reported on
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2001/12/28/22191.html
(Chinese version) Appendix 1: On June 23, 2001, The Washington Post published a commentary
condemning the Chinese Party's continuing persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners by forcing them into mental hospitals against their will, where
they were abused, and it called for democratic governments in the world and
international human rights organizations to further expose the Party's inhumane
abuses. The story of the 32-year-old computer engineer Su Gang who was
repeatedly arrested by the security department of his company because he refused
to give up practicing Falun Gong was especially shocking... after he protested
the ban on Falun Gong in Beijing on April 25, Su Gang was arrested for the
second time. On May 23, the Alkene Plant of Qilu Petro-Chemical Company where he
worked authorized the police to have him involuntarily admitted to a mental
hospital. According to Su Gang's father, the doctor gave Su Gang forced injections
twice a day, every day, of unknown drugs that damaged his central nervous
system. One week later when he left the hospital, Su Gang could not eat or move
his limbs. On June 10, 2001, the formerly healthy young man died of heart
failure. The Washington Post June 23rd Report: Father Appeals and
Receives Detention Su Gang's father Su De'an said during the interview yesterday that he
appealed to related government agencies regarding Su Gang's death but was
detained as a result. Now, he is under surveillance by the police and can't move
about freely. He choked and said, "It'll be hard to receive justice on this, but I
want to say to them, 'you can't do something this bad!'" Mingpao: Falun Gong Practitioner Dies Suddenly After Release and Forcibly
Sent to Mental Hospital and Injected With Drugs, reported on http://package.minghui.org/gb/0001/Jun/23/news
media 062300.html (Chinese version) Appendix 2: Falun Dafa Information Center: http://www.faluninfo.net Appendix 3: Judicial Psychiatry in China and Its Political Abuses, Robin
Munro, Columbia Journal of Asian. Law Volume 14, no.1, 2000. Appendix 4: Fang Lihong, male, 37 years old, technical school graduate
and traffic policeman at Anshan City Police Department in Liaoning Province.
When interviewed by the Washington Post, Fang Lihong said, "I was
very scared", "I don't have any mental illness but I was forced to
stay with other mental patients for 16 months". Fang Lihong said he was forced to take drugs everyday at Kangning Psychiatric
Hospital in Anshan City, Heilongjiang Province. Later, the hospital gave him
pills and asked him to take them on his own in his room. He said the doctor told
him they knew he wasn't ill but still had to "treat" him according to
higher orders. During the 45-minute interview, Fang spoke clearly and appeared rational. In
February, according to Falun Gong practitioners in the United States, police
caught him in southern Fujian Province and he died in their custody, apparently
from physical abuse. A doctor at Kangning Psychiatric Hospital confirmed the
mental hospital had treated Fang and had been informed of his death, but he
declined to discuss the case further. Zhu Jianlin, China Times: Fang Lihong Beaten to Death, August 27th
2002 Taipei report, http://search.minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/8/27/35688.html
(Chinese version) Appendix 5: Dangerous Minds. Robin Munro. Published by Human Rights Watch
and Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, 2002. Appendix 6: Wu Xiaohua was an associate professor of Anhui Province Construction
Engineering College. In July 2000, she was detained 50 days in Hefei City Mental
Hospital, Anhui Province. In late October 2000, she was again detained and the
doctors at the mental hospital approached her and tried to forcibly take off her
clothes without asking any questions about her condition. She was surrounded by
nurses who pinned her on the bed; they yanked her hair and stripped her of her
clothes. The doctor cursed as he cut Wu's underwear with scissors, then they
tied her with her arms and legs stretched out on a bed with four ropes and
shocked her whole body; they used electric needles on her, force-fed her drugs
and gave her injections used to treat mental illnesses. As a result, Wu
Xiaohua's mind became muddled, her head grew heavy and she was unstable. Since
late October 2000, she had been detained in the mental hospital for more than
130 days. The head physician, Dr. Wang Li cursed Wu Xiaohua for holding a hunger
strike. Wu Xiaohua held three hunger strikes during this period and Dr. Li said,
"I'm not afraid that you won't eat. We have all kinds of ideas here."
She also said, "if you go on hunger strike again, we'll use
Electroconvulsive Therapy on you." ECT was designed to help people with
their illness, now it has become a tool of torture. The hospital was used to
brutally torture Falun Gong practitioners. Wu Xiaohua was forcibly sent to a mental hospital for more than one year. In
the hospital, she suffered indescribable trauma as she was forcibly injected and
force-fed with drugs, and shocked with electricity. After the intake of the
drugs, she became lethargic and almost unconscious. She was uneasy when sitting,
standing and sleeping. She was dizzy and she vomited violently. Her menstruation
became irregular and her mind sometimes went blank. Her memory was impaired and
her vision became at times obscure. Her vision was blurred for objects at a
close distance and her hearing was greatly diminished. She was extremely weak
and at times, she lost consciousness three to four times a day. After more than
one year of forced detention in the mental hospital, in early October 2002, two
guards from Anhui Province Female Labor Camp took Wu Xiaohua away. Anhui Province Female Labor Camp; Chief's office: 86-551-5315739 Labor camp's office: 86-551-5312701; Xia Luping, Deputy director of Anhui
Province Construction Engineering College: 86-551-3516763 (office),
86-551-3510061 (home) Hu Chuanjian, Party secretary of Anhui Province Construction Engineering
College Appendix 7: At the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
in May 2001, the leadership passed Item 12H "Condemning the Chinese
Government's Misuse of Psychiatry" proposed by Dr. Nicholas Stratas and Dr.
Peggy Dorfman from North Carolina Appendix 8: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/7/13/12190p.html Appendix 9: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/8/27/25831p.html Appendix 10: U.N. General Assembly. Report of the Third Committee,
A/46/721. Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for
Improvement of Mental Health care. December17, 1991 Appendix 11: The World Psychiatric Association passed and demanded that
all 119 member nations follow international professional ethical standards for
treating mental illness. The Declaration of Hawaii passed in 1977; the Madrid
Declaration on Ethical Standards For Psychiatric Practice passed in 1996.
http://www.wpanet.org/home.html Appendix 12: The Nuremberg Trials: Chronology(c) 2000 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergChronology.html
November 29, 1945
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Ma Yanfang (33 years old, Zhucheng City, Shandong Province)
Yang Weidong (54 years old, Weifang City, Shandong Province)
Lu Hongfan (37 years old, Linwu City, Ningxia Province)
Shi Pei (49 years old, from Lanxi, Zhejiang Province)
Zhao Fulan (59 years old, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province)
Song Xiangzhen (Shenyang City, Liaoning Province)
Fang Lihong (37 years old, from Anshan City, Liaoning Province)
Jiang Rongzhen, (42 years old, Harbin City, Heilongjiang
Province)
Xiao Guiying (Yueyang, Hunan Province)
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