Steel Factory Worker Abused in Mental Hospital for Upholding His Belief

Mr. Liu Anhong is a worker of the Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Group Company. Due to his hunger strike against forced labour and illegal detention and because of his continued practice of Falun Gong, he was chained onto a bed for over four months at the Xinjiang Changjie Forced Labour Camp. He was force-fed daily and beaten by prison guards Gu Jianhai, Ning Tao and Tian Hu. The other prisoners were punished for Mr. Liu's protest and had their merit scores reduced and prison terms extended to incite their hatred against Mr. Liu, so, they also beat him.

After Mr. Liu's release from the Changjie Forced Labour Camp in 2002, he was forced into the Wulumuqi No. 4 Peoples' Hospital (Mental Hospital) by authorities with the Xinjiang Autonomous Government "610 Office" (1). He was forcibly injected with drugs and forced to take pills that damaged his nervous system. After over three months of treatment, Liu Anhong's nervous system was severely damaged, resulting in lack of facial expression and slow brain activity. In August 2003, Liu Anhong was illegally sentenced again to a labour camp for telling the public the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa and is now held in Xinjiang's Changjie Forced Labour Camp.

Some doctors at the Wulumuqi No. 4 Hospital unconditionally followed the orders from the Wulumuqi Police Department authorities and persecuted Dafa practitioners through drug injections and psychological torture. Their conduct was totally unethical, immoral and is in violation of law and common professional medical ethical standards. Up till this day, there are many mental hospitals that directly participate in the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners at the order of Jiang's political group. Here we strongly appeal to international human rights organizations to pay attention to this ongoing persecution toward Falun Dafa practitioners in China. We, Falun Dafa practitioners in Xinjiang and all kind people invite the World Psychiatric Association, World Psychiatric Congress, World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong and other international organizations to come to Xinjiang and investigate the above mentioned and other persecution cases of Falun Dafa practitioners.

Mailing address of Wulumuqi No. 4 Peoples' Hospital:

Jianquan Street, Wulumuqi City, Xinjiang Province, Postal code: 830002

Former president: Song Ying, left the post in 2003, currently is president of Wulumuqi Women and Children Health Institute and Vice Party Chief. Phone: 86-991-8554660, 86-991-8554656 (work)

Currentl president: Xu Xiangdong, 86-991-2655080

Party chief: Yang Zaixue, 86-991-8839981

(1) "610 Office": a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/3/31/71341.html