Sane man back home after an insane stretch
By Wang Xiang |
April 21, 2010, Wednesday
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A PERFECTLY rational man is back home after six days in an asylum for the "crime" of taking photos of a protest.
Peng Baoquan, a former banker in Shiyan, Hubei Province, told Xiaoxiang Morning Post that the six-day experience in the mental hospital, where he was forced to undergo "treatment" and take "unknown medicine" was still haunting him at nights.
The confusion started when Shiyan police saw him shooting films and snapping pictures with a group of 20 hotel employees protesting outside a hotel on April 9.
Officers sent him to the asylum without any medical examination, accusing him of "organizing the protest and fanning up anger while being obviously crazy."
The police also took an author, Deng Fuhua, who was filming the protest.
Peng's ex-wife, Ye Kefeng, said she had been calling Peng since the night of April 9, but failed to reach him.
She learned the next day that Peng was in the asylum.
In a statement issued by Shiyan police, Peng was said to have "talked nonsense" when being questioned.
He allegedly told police that he was a millionaire and a key figure in several huge national projects.
Police said he had a history of mental illness.
They said Peng and Deng took 10,000 yuan (US$1,465)from protesters and vowed to make a fuss about the case.
Peng said authorities had been singling him out since 2001 when he revealed corruption in the banking system to disciplinary watchdogs.
An official of the bank surnamed Li was sentenced to five years in prison yet Peng said there were "bigger fish" on his whistle-blower letter.
An official, surnamed Song, took his clients and forced him to quit, Peng said.
He kept going back to the bank to try and regain his post where conflicts arose.
He was jailed for a year in 2008 for disrupting public order. This was commuted "on the basis of insanity."
However, Ye, who still lives with Peng, said she obtained a doctored insanity test to save him from prison.
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