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Tales of the Chinese psychiatric gulag.(Brief Article)

The New American

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After 13 years of detention in Beijing's Ankang hospital for the criminally insane, Chinese dissident Wang Wanxing, 56, has been allowed to emigrate to Frankfurt, Germany, to join his wile and daughter.

Wang was arrested in 1993 for attempting to display a protest banner on Tiananmen Square. According to Communist Chinese authorities, this act amounted to "disturbing public order." An official report on Wang claimed that he was "diagnosed as suffering from 'paranoia,' and his dangerous behavior was attributed to his state of delusion." A separate report filed on his release insisted that Wang needed to be kept under "strict guardianship.... When the conversation turns to politics, he displays impairments of thought association and mental logic."

Non-Chinese officials who interviewed Wang in Germany, predictably, found him to be entirely sane and remarkably well-adjusted for a veteran of Beijing's psychiatric ...

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