Ankang (psychiatry)
Ankang ( Chinese 安康 , Pinyin Ānkāng ) refers to psychiatric clinics in the People's Republic of China . The term literally means "peace and health for the mentally ill". Many of these clinics are prison hospitals for political prisoners who have been sentenced as insane. They are directly under the control of the local security authorities. Some Ankang hospitals also offer conventional psychiatric and medical treatment. The name Ankang was given to hospitals by the Communist Party in1987.
Types of torture
Police authorities are unanimously accused of imprisoning healthy people in hospitals for criticizing the authorities or for religious reasons ( Falun Gong followers) without legal objection, mistreating them with red-hot iron and subjecting them to electric shocks, insulin shocks and chemical straitjackets.
Number of occupants
According to official data, China has 22 Ankang - mental hospitals . In 2001 there are said to have been 2,830, between 1991 and 2001 75,000 patients.
These figures are neither contested nor confirmed by human rights organizations . The figures vary about the number of political prisoners.
According to Chinese trade magazines, their number fell from 10 percent in the 1980s to below 5 percent. Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch, on the other hand, only cite their estimate of the total number of political prisoners in Ankangs since the early 1980s: 3,000.
Further development
The Chinese government plans in every big city in China, a police - Psychiatry set. If the project is implemented, the number will increase from 22 to 125.
Web links
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Www.state.gov Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, February 25, 2004
- ↑ www.zeit.de Electric shocks against the freedom virus, on November 3, 2005
- ↑ www.spiegel.de Psychoknast in China Whoever rebels is crazy, on November 21, 2005
- ↑ a b www.taz.de THAT'S ANKANGS, on November 10, 2005