(Clearwisdom.net) Wang Wanxing, a Chinese political dissident who now
lives in Germany, was detained in Beijing Ankang Hospital for thirteen years
after openly calling for justice after the June 4th massacre in 1992. The
hospital is a psychiatric hospital which detains criminals, political dissidents
and Falun Gong practitioners. Last August, with the efforts of the international
society, Wang Wanxing was reunited with his family in Germany.
For two of three years in Ankang Hospital, Wang Wanxing was looked after by a
male nurse working there. The nurse was also a policeman, as well as a Falun
Gong practitioner. Because of the growing internal pressure from the police
system, he was forced to resign. Wang Wanxing once promised this Falun Gong
practitioner that, if one day he could leave the hospital, he would tell the
whole world about this Falun Gong practitioner's story. He also met two other
Falun Gong practitioners being detained in Ankang Hospital.
At Ankang Hospital, Wang Wanxing also encountered another incident related to
Falun Gong. On December 16, 2001, the Chinese Communist Party's media
broadcasted a program called "Fu Yibin murders father and wife" to slander Falun
Gong. Fu Yibin himself was sent to Ankang Hospital after the case. After talking
to him when he was fully alert and awake, Wang Wanxing found that that he wasn't
a Falun Gong practitioner.
Below is Wang Wanxing's personal statement:
"I was arrested in 1992 after openly calling for justice after the June 4th
incident, and then sent to Beijing Ankang Hospital. They said that I was a
political maniac, but in other countries this wouldn't be seen as a mental
problem at all. On July 22, 2002, I was transferred to the third class of the
first division, and there I met a male nurse called Jing Guoqiang who was also a
policeman and he was responsible for looking after me. He was about forty years
old. We have had many deep and meaningful conversations, and he told me he
practices Falun Gong. His wife and child also practice. He also talked to me a
lot about Falun Gong, for example about Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and so
on.
At that time, all of the Ankang Hospital's nurses were policemen. All over the
country there were more than twenty Ankang Hospitals, and the police set them up
to exclusively detain criminals with mental problems as well as political
criminals like me and Falun Gong practitioners. At the end of 2004, before the
start of 2005, all the nurses there were policemen. But afterwards due to
external pressure, for example they said that if all the nurses were policemen
it would be impossible to align with international standards. Therefore they
also recruited people who have graduated from nursing academies.
Everyone knew that Jing Guoqiang practiced Falun Gong, but at the beginning, the
hospital could tolerate that, maybe because he was so good at his job. He was
especially friendly to the patients; and he was very popular and had lots of
patience. He was also very good to me and treated me as a friend and held
conversations with me. When he wanted to appeal for Falun Gong in Tiananmen
Square I really didn't want him to go, because I knew that he would be arrested.
I told him that if he went to Tiananmen to appeal for Falun Gong, there would be
no one so good to look after me. I also said to him, if I could leave the
hospital I would tell everyone about his story. In the end, he did not go to
Tiananmen Square. His wife, I think her name was Li Guifen, went and she was
sentenced to forced labor for a year and a half. Their child was very small at
the time; I think their kid was still going to preliminary school.
However in 2004, the public security ministry issued a document which stated
that anyone who persisted in practicing Falun Gong would be fired automatically
without exception. In the end there was an internal meeting in the hospital. Lei
Guoqiang felt that the pressure was huge, and he was forced to resign.
In the end I lost track of him. I wrote to the head of the Ankang Hospital, the
Police Station, the National Security Bureau, telling them about the story of
Lei Guoqiang. I also told them that persecuting Falun Gong would lose the
people's trust. I never stopped writing letters.
Another thing is, a few years ago there was a case of the "Fu Yibin murder." At
the time I heard on the radio that this Fu Yibin was a Falun Gong practitioner.
Later, he was also sent to Ankang Hospital, because all criminals with mental
problems were sent here. He was in the class two of the first division while I
was in class three. I found an opportunity to ask him whether if he did practice
Falun Gong. Because I knew whatever the CCP said could not be trusted, I was
looking for evidence. He told me that for a very short time he practiced Falun
Gong and then quit. When he committed the murders, he had stopped practicing
Falun Gong.
At Ankang Hospital I also met two other female Falun Gong practitioners, who
were detained for about a year between 2003 and 2004, but then I don't know
where they are now. I don't know if there were more practitioners detained in
the hospital.
I can only say this much for them here. Lots of Falun Gong practitioners are
still being persecuted in China while nobody knows about them. As for those who
have been persecuted to death, they cannot speak out for themselves anymore.
Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200605/33315.html
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