Posts Tagged ‘human rights violations’

Chinese political dissident tortured in psychiatric ward with 54 electroshock treatments spurs nationwide protests

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Spero News
By Asia News
April 30, 2010

Four officials of the district government of Luohe (Henan) were removed for having interned a petitioner in a psychiatric hospital for over 6 years.  Protests are growing in the country over local authorities systematic abuse of protesters.

Xu Lindong, the author of a petitioner from Daliu city has been interned in two psychiatric hospitals since October 2003. Xu began presenting petitions in 1997, both to local and central authorities. In 2003, dissatisfied with the response of local authorities, he decided to go to Beijing to petition. In response, local authorities had him forcibly repatriated, first sent him Zhumadian psychiatric hospital and later Luohe Psychiatric hospital, where was diagnosed with obsessive-ompulsive disorder and was subjected to 54 electroshock treatments.

Shi Hongtai and Yang Yaoqin, then secretary and deputy secretary of the Communist Party of Daliu, later promoted to higher positions, have been charged with his internment. It appears that they used false documents to have Xu interned.

The news has caused widespread protests and a campaign of online subscriptions, denouncing “the growing trend of regional authorities to restrict the freedom of citizens through similar measures [internment in psychiatric hospitals].”

Now the lawyer Boyang Chang, co-organizer of the signature campaign and family lawyer for Xu, has announced legal action against the Communist officials and hospital responsible for the illegal internment and is demanding compensation.

Read entire article:  http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=128&id=31951&t=China%3A+++Interned+in+psychiatric+hospital+for+6+%BD+years+for+presenting+petitions

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“Stop the Chinese Government’s Psychiatric Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners”

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Canada Free Press
March 31, 2010

During the thirteen session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, together with the Conscience Foundation, submitted a report on the Chinese government’s psychiatric torture of Falun Gong practitioners to various human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and to members of UN Human Rights Council.

China’s use of nerve-damaging chemicals to destroy Falun Gong practitioners’ capacity to hold thoughts and conscience has drawn the international community’s attention. As a result, organizations, agencies and individuals have made many helpful suggestions on how to stop such criminal acts. Based on the feedback we have received, FLGHRWG is launching a global initiative to work with world governments, agencies, and organizations to end the Chinese government’s mind-killing practices, and make those hospitals and individuals involved in psychiatric torture accountable for their crimes.

The global initiative includes the following actions:

  • Submit the report to governments, Interpol, medical associations, psychiatric associations and human rights organizations.
  • Submit the names of those doctors who have participated in the psychiatric torture of Falun Gong practitioners to governments and Interpol. These individuals should be arrested and prosecuted according to Article 5 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
  • Provide governments with the names of the presidents of those hospitals that have taken part in the psychiatric torture of Falun Gong practitioners. These individuals should be denied visas for international travel.
  • Provide governments, Physicians’ Associations, and Psychiatrists’ Associations with the list of hospitals that have taken part in the psychiatric torture of Falun Gong practitioners. These hospitals should be banned from international academic exchanges, collaboration, or medical training.
  • Provide a list of hospitals and individuals to medical associations, psychiatrists associations, and medical journals of various countries. These institutions and individuals should be banned from publishing research articles.
  • Request that the international community closely monitor and control psychiatric drug exports to China.

Read entire article:  http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/21523

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Psychiatric Torture in China

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Canada Free Press
October 1, 2009

In December 2008, the U.N. Commission against Torture reported on China’s overall human rights situation, its’ first report on China in 8 years. In the report, “the Committee also notes with concern that this provision has been misused to detain some people in psychiatric hospitals for reasons other than medical.”

After U.N. Special Rapporteur Prof. Manfred Nowak’s two week country visit to China at the end of 2005, the U.N. published a report on the country mission to China. The report states that torture occurred in Chinese mental hospitals in 8% of the cases submitted to the Special Rapporteur’s mandate over the 5-year period from 2000 to 2006.

Research indicates that cases of psychiatric “treatment” have spread to 23 out of 33 provinces under the direct leadership of the central government in China. At least 100 psychiatric facilities have been used in the effort to wipe out Falun Gong practitioner’s belief. Clearly, the abuse of psychiatric drugs on those who hold a different opinion from the government has been a well-planned, systematically carried out, top-down policy.

Daniel B. Borenstein, President of the American Psychiatric Association, published a letter in the New York Times on March 27, 2001, entitled “Jailed in China: Confront the Abuse.”

Read entire article: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15311

Also see G. Edward Griffin video on Psychiatry & Political Dissidents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0LsFmAl1U&feature=PlayList&p=79E9D68C92C00DAC&index=0&playnext=1

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