Psychiatric Torture
The articles in this section relate to the abuse of psychiatry and the physical and mental torture that Falun Gong practitioners receive in China's mental health care facilities.
Completely healthy practitioners are often sent to psychiatric wards for the purpose of 1) discrediting Falun Gong, and 2) bringing great pressure to bear on those who resolutely adhere to their faith.
Treatment in these facilities is inhumane to the extreme, often involving injecting practitioners with dangerous, mind-altering drugs which are known to damage the nervous system. Electric shock "therapy" is also used frequently as a form of punishment for not renouncing one's faith.
Organizations such as the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Human Rights Watch, and the Geneva Psychiatric Treatment Committee have reported on the abuse of psychiatry in China. The WPA has attempted to investigate the abuses of Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese mental wards but has been repeatedly denied access.
RECENT ARTICLES
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Jan. 20, 2024Three Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Liaoning Province Women’s Prison
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Dec. 2, 202312th Ward in Liaoning Women’s Prison Designated to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
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Oct. 7, 2023Nerve-damaging Drugs Added to Falun Gong Practitioners’ Food in Chengdu Women’s Prison
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Feb. 22, 2023The Chinese Communist Party’s Psychiatric Abuse of and Human Experiments on Falun Gong Practitioners
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Feb. 22, 2021Sichuan Woman Repeatedly Arrested and Force-fed Toxic Drugs in Psychiatric Hospital
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Feb. 20, 2021Unknown Drugs and Injections Forced on Falun Gong Practitioners in Sichuan Province
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Nov. 12, 2019Forced Drug Injections at a Labor Camp Caused Hunan Woman’s Mental Collapse
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March 23, 2019Ankang Psychiatric Hospitals Facilitate Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners
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Oct. 19, 2018Pregnant Woman Force-fed Psychiatric Drugs in Custody, Imprisoned Husband in Critical Condition
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Jan. 24, 2018Tianjin Prisons’ Systematic Use of Drugs in Persecution of Falun Gong
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May 22, 2016Ms. Cui Yanqiu Suffers Mental Disorder Due to Toxic Drug Injections
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March 4, 2015Ms. Fan Limin Suffering Abnormal Symptoms After Five Months in Prison
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Feb. 7, 2015Memory Loss Caused by Being Force-fed or Injected with Unknown Substances
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Jan. 11, 2015Dark Secrets of China's “Ankang” Psychiatric Hospitals
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Sept. 17, 2014Beijing Woman Forced to Undergo Psychiatric Treatment for Refusing to Renounce Her Belief
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Sept. 9, 2014Falun Gong Practitioners Locked Up in Mental Hospitals
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Sept. 8, 2014Mr. Zhang Guoli Force-Fed with Harmful Hallucinogens (Photo)
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July 19, 2014Teacher from Shanghai Given Neurotoxic Drugs at Fengxian Brainwashing Center
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April 11, 2014A Cry for Help from Prison: Mr. Zhan Xingmao Suffering Psychiatric Abuse from Unknown Drugs
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April 8, 2014Summary Report: Healthy Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death in Mental Hospitals
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Feb. 12, 2014Falun Gong Practitioners from Jiangsu Province Tortured with Psychiatric Drugs
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Sept. 17, 2013A Nurse from Jiangxi Province Subjected to Psychiatric Persecution for 10 Years
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July 25, 2013Ms. Li Huijuan Suffers Mental Collapse from Torture at Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp
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July 5, 2013Falun Gong Practitioners Electric Shocked and Injected with Unknown Drugs at No. 261 Hospital in Beijing
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June 5, 2013Ms. Zhu Weiying Lost Her Ability to Walk as a Result of Being Drugged and Tortured
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May 30, 2013Despite a New "Mental Health Law," Falun Gong Practitioners Still Illegally Held in Mental Hospitals in China
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May 27, 2013Tortured in a Mental Hospital and Labor Camp, Professor Wu Xiaohua's Whereabouts Unknown Since 2010
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Aug. 17, 2012Falun Dafa Practitioner Tortured at Psychiatric Hospital for Eleven Years--Mother Still Deceived by Chinese Communist Party
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May 26, 2012The Story of Mr. Yang Baochun: How the CCP Uses Psychiatric Hospitals to Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners in China
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July 21, 2011After Five Years of Imprisonment, Mr. Ren Dongsheng from Tianjin Suffers from Mental Disorder
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May 30, 2011Ms. Wang Yongfang Persecuted to a State of Mental Collapse; Her Family in Tragic Situation
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March 29, 2011Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yan Yuqin Became Mentally Disordered As a Result of Torture in Beijing's Tiantanghe Forced Labor Camp
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March 4, 2011Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Lei from Beijing Suffers Nervous Breakdown As a Result of Persecution
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Feb. 15, 2011Mother and Son Hung Up and Tortured by Police; Son Suffers Mental Disorder
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Dec. 17, 2010Ms. Lin Xiumei Injected with Unknown Drugs in Police Custody in Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province
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Nov. 24, 2010Female Practitioner Suffers Mental Collapse Due to Torture at Zhejiang Women's Prison
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Nov. 23, 201070-Year-Old Woman Driven to Mental Disorder by Persecution
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July 7, 2010Psychiatric Torture
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May 26, 2010Ms. Zhan Yang Suffers Mental Breakdown as a Result of Persecution (Photo)
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April 30, 2010Practitioners Injected with Nerve-damaging Drugs at Baoding Mental Hospital (Photos)
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April 27, 2010Ms. Li Huijuan Suddenly Became Mentally Disordered in Baimalong Forced Labor Camp after Guards Gave Her Some "Milk"
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April 16, 2010Ms. Kan Jixiang Grossly Abused and Mistreated to the Point of Mental Disorder at Linyi City Brainwashing Center
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April 16, 2010Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to the Point of Mental Collapse in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
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April 13, 2010Ms. Zhang Li Develops Mental Disorder After Suffering Severe Persecution
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March 19, 2010Geneva, Switzerland: Report on Psychiatric Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners Formally Released at Press Conference in front of the United Nations (Photos)
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March 17, 2010Speech to UN Human Rights Conference Exposes CCP's Abuse of Psychiatric Drugs in the Persecution of Falun Gong
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Feb. 18, 2010Former Tsinghua University Student Ms. Liu Zhimei Sustains Mental Collapse from Injections of Unnecessary and Harmful Drugs (Photos)
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Oct. 31, 2009Ms. Li Chunlan Is Mentally Ill Due to Torture (Photo)
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Oct. 28, 2009Lishui Detention Center Tortured Du Mingsheng to the Point of Mental Collapse
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Oct. 15, 2009Hu Ying Mentally Ill as a Result of Being Persecuted at Liaoning Women's Prison (Photo)
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Oct. 2, 2009Psychiatric Torture in China
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Aug. 8, 2009Ms. Chen Yingqi, Teacher from Guangdong Province, Suffers Mental Disorder from Torture
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July 22, 2009Hou Jingtao from Mudanjiang Tortured to Mental Collapse in 2001
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July 14, 2009Mr. Wang Chengtao Dangerously Emaciated and Mentally Disoriented from Torture in Prison
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July 8, 2009Feng Derong Missing for Several Years After Becoming Mentally Unstable As a Result of Persecution
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July 4, 2009Mr. Zhang Yixiang Jailed for Five Years--Brain-damaging Drugs Placed in His Food
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July 4, 2009Beijing Practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuqin Mentally Disordered as a Result of Persecution
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June 17, 2009Ms. Fei Jinrong Suffers Mental Collapse as a Result of Persecution by the Judicial and Public Security Division
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June 3, 2009Ms. Zhong Donglan Suffers Mental Disorder After Being Given Unknown Drugs at Fujian Province Forced Labor Camp
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May 25, 2009Ms. Pan Chenhong Mentally Disabled by Torture at Wangcun Forced Labor Camp
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May 11, 2009Mr. Zhang Chunlin Suffers Mental Collapse After Being Injected with Unknown Drug
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April 24, 2009Ms. Cheng Guiping Suffers Mental Impairment after Being Injected with Drug in Shayang Forced Labor Camp
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Feb. 3, 2009Practitioners Maltreated in Huaihua City Mental Hospital, Hunan Province
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April 11, 2006VOA: Psychiatric Abuses in China
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Nov. 2, 2005Poison Needles Are Powerless Against Righteous Thoughts
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Sept. 7, 2002Madrid Declaration On Ethical Standards for Psychiatric Practice
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Sept. 6, 2002The Japan Times: Psychiatric Abuse In China
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April 21, 2001How Could I, Emerging from Despondency, Not Embrace Falun Gong?
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April 9, 2000Qun Li sent to a psychiatric hospital for writing a petition letter reporting Falun Gong practitioners being kept in a psychiatric hospital
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Feb. 22, 2000Practitioners from Shandong Province Abused in Mental Hospital
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Feb. 15, 2000Appalling Experiences of Five Falun Gong Practitioners from Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province
