Munro’s study, the Falun Dafa Information Center,

spring of 2000 is the best guide we have to under-standing this problem, and its publication first drew sustained, worldwide attention to the abuses of fo-rensic psychiatry in China in general and of Falun Gong practitioners in particular. The government’s control of the media and an embargo on any infor-mation regarding these practices make it an ex-tremely difficult task to verify the true scope and detail of the abuse of psychiatry in China. A few months before the publication of Munro’s report, Falun Gong practitioner (and a permanent resident of the United States) Dr. Teng Chunyan managed to smuggle out of China pictures documenting the use of Chinese mental hospitals to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Her efforts resulted in some media cov-erage outside China2; but, unfortunately, media in-terest in the facts she brought to light was short-lived. Upon her return to China, she was arrested and sen-tenced to three years in a labor camp, where she is reported to be undergoing regular abuse. Building on the heroic attempt by Dr. Teng and on Robi