Psychiatry Used For Torture In China

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights reports on Psychiatric Abuse in China in "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death." It is reported that in China psychiatrists have tortured and imprisoned hundreds of members of the religious group Falun Gong in psychiatric facilities called ankangs. The Chinese psychiatrists invented "diagnoses" such as "delusions of reform" and "political maniacs" in order to justify the incarcerations. Members of this religious group have been severely punished with "intravenous injections that made their tongues bulge out of their mouths and by extremely painful acupuncture that applied intense electric currents to the soles of their feet." They have been heavily drugged in attempts to make them renounce their beliefs. Wang Wansing was among the political dissidents in China who was locked up in an ankang for 13 years for having displayed a banner which was critical of the Chinese Communist Party. He has reported that the Chinese psychiatrists used electrified acupuncture needles for torture.