YOKOHAMA -- The World Psychiatric Association has agreed to send a team of experts to China next spring to investigate claims that the communist government is confining political dissidents, including members of the Falun Gong sect, in mental wards, WPA president Juan Lopez-Ibor said Tuesday.
The WPA voted Monday evening to send a fact-finding team to China to look into the allegations, according to Lopez-Ibor.
The move was put to vote during a WPA meeting held on the sidelines of the 12th World Congress of Psychiatry, currently being held at Pacifico Yokohama convention hall.