Former Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces in Qingdao City, Shandong Province Detained in a Mental Hospital for the Third Time

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Deyao, from Qingdao City, Shandong Province, was once a lieutenant colonel in the armed forces in Qingdao City. Because he persists in his belief in Falun Gong, he has suffered mistreatment many times. Mr. Zhang is currently imprisoned at the Mental Hospital of Qingdao City. This is the third time he has been sent to a mental hospital under this persecution.

When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa in July 1999, Mr. Zhang Deyao went to the municipal government to appeal and was imprisoned by the army for a month. During this period he suffered greatly, resulting in a mental collapse. He was then sent to the Mental Hospital of Qingdao City (the Mental Health Centre of Qingdao City, also called the Seventh People's Hospital in Qingdao). At that time he already had the honour of being ranked fifth in the career-change test and had been assigned to the Qingdao Municipal Police Department. However, because he was a Falun Dafa practitioner, he was forced by the relevant organisation of the CCP to work at the First Middle School of Qingdao City.

Later, because Mr. Zhang Deyao went to Beijing to appeal, the school officials and the CCP again sent to him the Mental Hospital of Qingdao City. Afterwards Mr. Zhang Deyao walked away from his detention and has been destitute and homeless ever since. This year when he was speaking out for justice publicly, he fainted by the roadside due to hunger and exposure to the cold. The "120 Emergency Service" took him to the hospital where he revealed his home address. His wife and the related personnel from the school sent him to the mental hospital once again.

This is the third time Mr. Zhang Deyao has been imprisoned at the mental hospital where he is suffering inhuman tortures. He told his child who came to see him that the doctors there injected him with unknown drugs. His wife realised this was not right and went to the mental hospital to demand her husband's release. But Sun Pijian (male), the physician-in-charge of the mental hospital, refused to release Mr. Zhang using the excuse that a consent from Mr. Zhang's employer, the First Middle School, was needed for Mr. Zhang's release. Zhang Deyao's wife found the principal and Li Guoguang (male), the Teaching Affairs Division director of the First Middle School, and asked them to cooperate with her by going to the hospital and negotiating for her husband's release. The principal and Li Guoguang each directed the responsibility to the other, however, Li Guoguang is the main person in charge in this case. He said Mr. Zhang's case was handled by his predecessor and he had nothing to do with it so he did not agree to help release Mr. Zhang.

First Middle School of Qingdao City

Teaching Affairs Division Director Li Guoguang: 86-13105157228 (Mobile)

Mental Health Centre of Qingdao City (Seventh People's Hospital)
Doctor Sun Pijian, person mainly in charge of practitioners: 86-532-86669120
Address: 9 Dong'an Road, Qingdao City, Zip code: 266034

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/1/24/147504.html