(Minghui.org) Ms. Sun Shujie, a Falun Gong practitioner in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, was illegally arrested on June 4, 2014, by officers from the Yonghong Police Station. She had a mental collapse after being detained for just 20 days in a detention center. Officials from Shuangyashan City Political and Legal Affairs Committee nonetheless insisted that she would be sentenced to prison regardless of her mental state.
Psychological persecution is a major part of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. According to incomplete statistics from the Minghui website, thousands of practitioners have been sent to mental hospitals, and tens of thousands have been injected with harmful drugs. Several hundred practitioners have experienced mental collapses due to the persecution. Practitioners have suffered all kinds of persecution, including torture, administration of harmful drugs, sexual abuse, etc.
To cover up their crimes, the CCP agents often claim it's Falun Gong that causes these victims to have mental breakdowns. These false accusations place practitioners and their families under enormous pressure, and subjects them to humiliation from all aspects of society.
I. Brutal Torture Causes Mental Collapse
In attempts to force practitioners to give up their beliefs, more than 100 torture methods have been used on them, including electric shock, beating, tiger bench torture, etc. Many practitioners have lost their lives due to being brutal torture. Some were disabled, and some had mental collapses.
Ms. Li Chunlan Experiences Mental Collapse After Being Electrically Shocked and Detained in a Steel Cage
Ms. Li Chunlan before the persecution
Ms. Li Chunlan had a mental collapse after being tortured
Ms. Li Chunlan was detained in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp three times and suffered brutal tortures. In 2008, after a 20-month detention in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, she had a mental collapse and lost the ability to think or speak normally. She sat on her bed all day long and was unable to take care of herself.
Mr. Du Weifeng Suffered Mental Disorder During His Detention in Xidayingzi Forced Labor Camp
Mr. Du Weifeng before the persecution
Photo taken on the third day after Mr. Du Weifeng was sent to a mental hospital due to a collapse in the labor camp
Mr. Du Weifeng, was formerly a worker in a power plant under Lingyuan Steel Company. He was only in his twenties when he was subjected to forced labor in 2003. He was detained in the Xidayingzi Forced Labor Camp in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. He was subjected to electric shock, slave labor, long-term standing, forced brainwashing, etc. He eventually could no longer withstand the savage persecution and had a mental collapse.
Ms. Kang Ruiqi
Ms. Kang Ruiqi before the persecution
Ms. Kang Ruiqi after the persecution
Ms. Kang Ruiqi, in her sixties, was a retired department manager. She suffered one year of forced labor in Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in 2006. Instigated by the guards, the inmates tortured her. She was forced to stand and squat for long hours in attempts to force her to give up her belief. The inmates bundled together several toothbrushes and repeatedly inserted them into her vagina, which caused extreme pain and bleeding. She was sent to the Baimalong Labor Camp again in August 2008, and eventually had a mental collapse.
Mr. Xu Dawei had Scars Covering His Body From Electric Shocks, and Suffered Mental Disorder
Mr. Xu Dawei before the persecution, a chef in Shenyang City
Mr. Xu Dawei became emaciated and had electric shock marks all over his body
Mr. Xu Dawei was detained in Dongling Prison, in Shenyang City, for eight years. During his detention, he was persecuted to the point of having multiple organ failures. His entire body was covered in bruises and he suffered a mental collapse. He died thirteen days after being released from prison.
Ms. He Bigang
Ms. He Bigang before the persecution
Ms. He Bigang after being persecuted
Ms. He Bigang, 50, was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2001. She was brutally tortured in Hunan Province Women's Prison, including beatings, hangings, electric shocks, harmful injections, and was forced to drink lime. She eventually became emaciated and suffered a mental collapse. She was released on March 3, 2008. Years later, she is still mentally confused.
II. Persecution in Mental Hospitals
Many once-healthy practitioners were sent to mental hospitals and given drugs that damaged their nervous systems. Some were persecuted to the point of mental collapse. Their tormentors claimed that their conditions were caused by Falun Gong.
Ms. Wei Hua Sent to a Mental Hospital, Became Paralyzed, and Died
Ms. Wei Hua before the persecution
Ms. Wei Hua after being sent to a mental hospital
Ms. Wei Hua, was a retiree from Xiejiawan department store in Jiulongpe District, Chongqing City. On October 18, 2005, several people including Xu Fulin, director of the resident office, and Yang Zhixue from a brainwashing center, sent Ms. Wei to a mental hospital.
On November 25, 2005, her family suddenly received a notice from the mental hospital, saying that her life was in danger and the family was required to take her home. When her family arrived at the mental hospital, they found her laying paralyzed on a bed with an oxygen tube in her nose, and attached to a catheter. She was unconscious. Her symptoms were vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
After her family took her home, Ms. Wei Hua remained unconscious and paralyzed. She died on April 30, 2007.
Man Returns Home With Mental Disorder Ten Years After Escaping From Forced Labor Camp
Mr. Li Aixue taken ten years ago
Mr. Li Aixue, two months after returning home
Mr. Li Aixue was arrested on January 12, 2003, by officers from Yanghenanzhen Police Station, Xuanhua County, Hebei Province. He was subjected to one and a half years of forced labor in Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp, where he was forced to do slave labor and endure torture, including having the sole of his foot pierced with an awl.
It was said that he later escaped from the labor camp. His whereabouts were unknown for almost ten years.
In December 2012, he was sent back by the local civil affairs bureau. He was mentally disordered. His eyes were dull and unfocused, and he could not understand or respond to what was said to him. His left wrist had a badge from a mental hospital. He didn't even recognize his own mother.
III. Harmful Drugs Cause Mental Breakdowns
Falun Gong practitioners are often persecuted by being given harmful drugs that damage the nervous system.
Ms. Liu Zhimei, A Talented Student at Tshinghua University
Ms. Liu Zhimei before the persecution
Ms. Liu Zhimei in 2010, after suffering a mental collapse from the persecution, runs into a corner of her living quarters with clenched fists whenever someone tries to approach her.
Seventeen-year-old Liu Zhimei was admitted to the Chemical Engineering Department at Tsinghua University in 1997, with the exempt status because she earned the top grade in all of Shandong Province during an academic exam. She was one of the nearly 1,000 practitioners at Tsinghua University.
Because she practiced Falun Gong, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In Shandong Women's Prison, guard Dong Jixia forced her to take three injections almost every day. By 2003, Ms. Liu was starting to exhibit symptoms of a mental disorder. Before she was released, she was again injected with unknown drugs. The third day after she returned home, she started to exhibit abnormal mental behavior. She grew anxious and said things that no one could understand. She constantly waved her arms in the air as if she were running. She sometimes didn't sleep at all, or for only about two hours.
She quickly lost her memory and didn't even know how old she was. She urinated on the bed without knowing it. Her relatives and friends believed her condition was caused by the drugs administered prior to her release.
Her left middle finger is deformed. The second knuckle is enlarged and is unable to straighten [see photo below]. A medical professional stated that it might be caused by the effect of the long-term injection of harmful and unnecessary drugs.
Ms. Liu's left middle finger is deformed. The second knuckle is enlarged and cannot straighten
Injuries on Ms. Liu Zhimei
Ms. Xu Yimin Persecuted to Mental Collapse Through Beatings and Drugs
Ms. Xu Yimin
Ms. Yu Yimin developed a mental disorder as a result of persecution
Ms. Xu Yimin, 49, was arrested five times. She was sent to Jianghan District Brainwashing Center three times, and was subjected to one year of forced labor once. She died on August 5, 2011.
Ms. Xu Yimin was injected with unknown drugs from November 2002 to January 2003. She initially felt pain radiating from her feet. Gradually, she lost her memory, lost the feeling in her feet, and lost the ability to walk. The guards at the center also severely beat her and hit her head against a wall. After she was released, her husband divorced her and she had no income since she was fired from her job while she was in detention.
Ms. Xu had a mental collapse in 2003. She later had great difficulty walking, and could only crawl on the ground. She could no longer take care of her daily needs.
During the eight years while Ms. Xu Yimin was mentally disordered, Cao Xinyun, head of the local resident community, lied by claiming that her condition was caused by practicing Falun Gong.
Ms. Su Juzhen Suffers Mental Collapse and Passes Away Due to Persecution
Ms. Su Juzhen
Ms. Su Juzhen right before her death
In Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, guards Zhang Xiurong, Qiu Ping, and Wang Yanping had Ms. Su Juzhen hung from a metal bed by handcuffs, with both hands behind her back, her head down, and both feet off the ground. She suffered this torture day and night for as long as five months.
She was once stripped of her clothes and electrically shocked for an entire night. Her face was covered with blisters and badly swollen.
The guards forced her to take drugs that are harmful to the nervous system. She became mentally disordered, and was no longer able to move her arms or legs. Her eyes became dull. She lost her memory and could not speak. She was unable to take care of herself.
Her family noticed that she had an unhealed wound in her genital area and needle injection marks on her body. At around 8:30 a.m., on April 8, 2006, Ms. Su died at the age of 49.
Torture re-enactment: Tied to a bed with one's hands and feet behind
IV. Mental Breakdown Cases Caused by Rape
Many young practitioners suffered mental collapses due to being raped.
Ms. Zhu Xia Had a Mental Collapse After Being Raped Multiple Times and Brutally Tortured
Ms. Zhu Xia before the persecution
Ms. Zhu Xia after being persecuted
Ms. Zhu Xia was sent to three brainwashing centers in Pengzhou City, Qi County, and Xinxin County respectively since June 2003. She was tortured, injected with harmful drugs, raped, paraded through the streets, and deprived of sleep.
During her detention in Qi County Brainwashing Center, where she was drugged and was not clear minded, two villains—Liu Wei and another one, raped her several times. Ms. Zhu, 32, suffered a mental collapse.
Ms. Tan Guanghui Suffered Mental Disorder After Being Repeatedly Raped By Guards at Wanjia Forced Labor Camp 13 Years Ago
Ms. Tan Guanghui when she was young (before the persecution)
Ms. Tan Guanghui continuously walks around the room every day, after suffering a mental collapse
Ms. Tang Guanghui was forcibly given an injection around June 2001, and carried to the male cell. She was humiliated and raped, which severely damaged her health, both physically and mentally.
She was taken to the labor camp hospital, where she was given injections every day. The injections caused her to become lethargic and even unconscious. She was raped again by the guards. The harmful drugs and the rape drove her beyond her limit of endurance, and she collapsed mentally.
Before the persecution, Ms. Tan Guanghui had a happy family of four and was a good wife and mother.
Related article: Summary Report: Healthy Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death in Mental Hospitals
