(Clearwisdom.net) In April 2000, I was arrested for practicing the Falun Gong exercises outdoors. The next afternoon, three or four government officers from my village abducted me and brought me to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital under the pretext of conducting a physical examination. Zhaou Lanjie, the village head, and Gao Siming, the village Party secretary, claimed that since I had been to Beijing four times to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong, they had enough evidence to prove that I had lost my sanity.
The first night in the mental hospital, a female nurse saw me sitting on the bed with my legs crossed. She brought over two pills, but I refused to take them. The next day my family came to talk to Sun Zhijun, a head doctor at the hospital, demanding my release. My family argued that I had never been mentally impaired. Sun Zhijun retorted that only those who had brought me to the hospital would be allowed to release me; family members were not eligible. Sun also claimed that I was "mentally hindered" and had to take medicine.
That night the nurse ordered me to take the pills and I refused again. She called in several other people, including two doctors and four patients who were being treated for mental problems. I was dragged to another room and tied to a bed. Since I put up a resistance, a male doctor and a female nurse joined the fray and held me down while a nurse inserted a metal bar between my teeth. They then used a special tool similar to a jack to pry my mouth open. Water and pills were forced into my mouth. Someone squeezed my nose shut, so I had to breathe through my mouth and the pills slipped down my throat. Since I refused to comply, the male doctor asked a nurse to make up an injection as well. Soon I fell asleep. When I woke up, I found myself still tied up.
During the following days, the nurse and other patients forcibly administered medicine to me every day. Several days later, I said, "No!" to another injection, but the doctors and nurses ignored me completely, asking other patients to hold me down while they injected me against my will. Twenty minutes later, I felt dizzy, my throat was dry, my eyes were unable to focus, and I could only stare blankly. I was unbearably uncomfortable. As the injection took effect, I lost strength in my entire body and could not even raise my arms. I stumbled when I walked and had difficulty speaking.
Most inhumane of all is that, after four injections (the normal schedule was to force one injection upon a mentally impaired patient each month), I not only had the reactions described above but also suffered mental damage. If I sat down for two minutes, I was compelled to stand up and walk around because of an uneasy feeling. But after walking for only two minutes, I would feel so uncomfortable that I had to sit down. Even in the summer, I felt extremely hot but was unable to sweat. My face and hands turned red, my eyes were slow to focus on anything, my reactions were very slow, and my tongue felt stiff. I would fall down, as weak as a puppy, whenever someone lightly touched me. Even with all these symptoms, the nurses continued to give me medicine every single day.
During this period, several dozen Falun Gong practitioners were being held in this mental hospital. Ten months later, we were transferred to the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Center to face additional pressures to give up our belief.
January 20, 2004
