cheap laborers seen today at the Anti-Fraud Office for illegal immigrants from China
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It also seemed that, China had hardly known high security forensic institutions until 1989.[93]:243 However, since then, the Chinese authorities have constructed the entire network of special forensic mental hospitals called Ankang which in Chinese is for ‘Peace and Health.’[93]:243 By that time, China had had 20 Ankang institutions with the staff employed by the Ministry of State Security.[93]:243 The psychiatrists who worked there were wearing uniforms under their white coats.[93]:243
The political abuse of psychiatry in China seems to take place only in the institutions under the authority of the police and the Ministry of State Security but not in those belonging to other governmental sectors.[93]:243 Psychiatric care in China falls into four sectors that hardly connect up with each other.[93]:243 These are Ankang institutions of the Ministry of State Security; those belonging to the police; those that fall under the authority of the Ministry of Social Affairs; those belonging to the Ministry of Health.[93]:243 Both the sectors belonging to the police and the Ministry of State Security are the closed sectors, and, consequently, information hardly ever leaks out.[93]:243 In the hospitals belonging to the Ministry of Health, psychiatrists do not contact with the Ankang institutions and, actually, had no idea of what occurred there, and could, thereby, sincerely state that they were not informed of political abuse of psychiatry in China.[93]:243
In China, the structure of forensic psychiatry was to a great extent identical to that in the USSR.[93]:243 On its own, it is not so strange, since psychiatrists of the Moscow Serbsky Institute visited Beijing in 1957 to help their Chinese ‘brethren’, the same psychiatrists who promoted the system of political abuse of psychiatry in their own USSR.[93]:243 As a consequence, diagnostics were not much different than in the Soviet Union.[93]:244 The only difference was that the Soviets preferred ‘sluggish schizophrenia’ as a diagnosis, and the Chinese generally cleaved to the diagnosis ‘paranoia’ or ‘paranoid schizophrenia’.[93]:244 However, the results were the same: long hospitalization in a mental hospital, involuntary treatment with neuroleptics, torture, abuse, all aimed at breaking the victim’s will.[93]:244
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) attempted to confine the problem by presenting it as Falung Gong issue and, at the same time, make the impression that the members of the movement were likely not mentally sound, that it was a sect which likely brainwashed its members, etc.[93]:245 There was even a diagnosis of ‘qigong syndrome’ which was used reflecting on the exercises practiced by Falung Gong.[93]:245 It was the unfair game aiming to avoid the political abuse of psychiatry from dominating the WPA agenda.[93]:245
In August 2002, the General Assembly was to take place during the next WPA World Congress in Yokohama.[93]:247 The issue of Chinese political abuse of psychiatry had been placed as one of the final items on the agenda of the General Assembly.[93]:251 When the issue was broached during the General Assembly, the exact nature of compromise came to light.[93]:252 In order to investigate the political abuse of psychiatry, the WPA would send an investigative mission to China.[93]:252 The visit was projected for the spring of 2003 in order to assure that one could present a report during the annual meeting of the British Royal College of Psychiatrists in June/July of that year and the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in May of the same year.[93]:252 After the 2002 World Congress, the WPA Executive Committee’s half-hearted attitude in Yokohama came to light: it was an omen of a longstanding policy of diversion and postponement.[93]:252 The 2003 investigative mission never took place, and when finally a visit to China did take place, this visit was more of scientific exchange.[93]:252 In the meantime, the political abuse of psychiatry persisted unabatedly, nevertheless the WPA did not seem to care.[...]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#
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