Sun Minghao is an art teacher at the Children's Palace of Yantai City. After the Chinese government started persecuting Falun Dafa last year, he went to Beijing last October 27th to explain the truth and speak out for Dafa. He was arrested by the authorities and put into a detention center until January 14th of this year. After he was released, he again went back to Beijing to speak out for Dafa. As a result, the police arrested him and brought him back to Yantai, where he was put in jail again. There, he started a hunger strike on February 15th to protest his illegal detention. On February 20th, the authorities forcibly admitted him to the Yantai City Mental Rehabilitation Center. There he was treated as a mental patient in the 6th Ward, and heavy doses of psychiatric drugs destroyed his health. Sun Xiangshu, a female practitioner who went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa with him, was also detained in the 2nd Ward of the same mental hospital.

When he refused medication in the mental hospital, the hospital authorities tied Sun Minghao to the bed and force-fed him drugs through his nose. The daily dosage increased from 3 pills to 5, then to 7. After being given 7 pills a day, the pain throughout Sun's body became unbearable. Meanwhile, no family members were allowed to visit him.

Around March 10th, another practitioner, Sun Yansheng, was also admitted into the same ward. Yansheng was a worker at the Shaoyuan Gold Mine. His employer told his family that Yansheng had been sent to a seminar, but he was actually committed to the mental hospital. Since the Gold Mine management could not find any medical reasons to send him to the mental hospital, they wined and dined Gong Yuzhu, the Chief of the hospital, and Ding Yuanlin, director of the 6th Ward. Together they agreed to commit Yansheng to the hospital. Even though Gong Yuzhu and Ding Yuanlin were fully aware of the real reason behind it, they sold their own consciences for just a nice meal and followed through with the plan. They knowing sent a perfectly healthy man to the mental hospital to be abused and humiliated.

After being sent to the hospital, Sun Minghao and Sun Yansheng demanded to be released. They declared that they were not ill and asked to see their family. The Director of the ward said, "I would have strapped you down to the hospital bed from the beginning if I had believed you were truly ill." On March 23rd, Sun Minghao again demanded vigorously to be released from the hospital, stating that he was healthy and that he had not committed any wrongdoing. To protest his innocence, he charged at the wall with his head, intending to kill himself, which resulted in a serious head wound. Hospital personnel ignored the wound and tied him to the bed, strapping him down by his arms and legs and wrapping his head and shoulders with an additional bedspread. Having no other means to protest his innocence, he started a hunger strike. When his roommate Yansheng questioned the Director as to why Minghao was tied up, the director replied, "Do you want to go on hunger strike, too?" Yansheng said yes. Immediately, he was also strapped down to the bed. Hospital personnel then force-fed them with food and drugs through feeding tubes. They also broke several syringes trying to inject them with medications. On the third day of confinement to the bed, Minghao lost consciousness for an entire day, but the hospital continued with the bed confinement. He was released only after his family and work unit personnel came for him two days later. The hospital forced both him and his family to promise that he would not go to Beijing again.

Throughout the abuses at the hospital, the doctors repeatedly told the practitioners that they would be released immediately if they signed pledges that they would never go back to Beijing. They were fully aware that practitioners were not mentally ill, yet they purposely and savagely tortured the Dafa practitioners. Their actions will undoubtedly be punished in the future.

When Sun Minghao was committed to the mental hospital, he was escorted and accompanied by the local police from the Xinglong Street police station. The local authorities clearly were behind this whole incident. He was detained there for 28 days, and Sun Shuxing was detained for more than 40 days.

There were 7 female practitioners imprisoned in ward #2, and 5 practitioners in ward #3. Known practitioners were Sun Yuhua, Ji Yan, Huo Xufen, Song Hui and Wang Jinglun.

Of these, especially noted was practitioner Sun Yuhua. Her husband happened to be a high-ranking colonel in charge of the military garrison in Yuntai. Just because she wrote to the Party leadership speaking out against the government's crackdown on Falun Gong, her husband was stripped of his military post, and is now just an ordinary citizen. She was also sent to the mental hospital and received mistreatment there. Such punishments based on "guilt by association" have not been seen since the days of the Cultural Revolution. In today's civilized world, Jiang Zemin has revived this tactic against innocent Falun Gong practitioners, their friends and family members. He has ordered the treatment of hundreds of millions of people as state enemies. Everyone will be judged according to his or her own actions. In the end, Jiang Zemin's wickedness will be exposed and his deeds will not go unpunished.

Practitioners in China

Oct. 30, 2000