In 2022, the Chinese Communist Party, so called CCP is still routinely locking up political targets in psychiatric hospitals despite implementing legal changes to stop this barbaric practice more than a decade ago.
In the name of stability maintenance, the CCP is able to remove petitioners and activists entirely out of the justice system, with no hope of seeing a lawyer or going to trial, while “diagnosing” them with mental illness so that they are socially isolated even after release.
Detained: China’s psychiatric prisons, exposes how Chinese police and government agents are still sending petitioners and activists to psychiatric wards for medically-unnecessary compulsory treatment, where some languish for years.
Raport China’s Psychiatric Prisons tells all what's going on.
It provides evidence that China is routinely locking up activists and petitioners in mental hospitals, one of the most chilling ways that China silences critics.
Mental torture: China is locking up critics in psychiatric facilities
In China, posting a political comment, submitting a complaint about a corrupt official, or shouting slogans in the street, will quickly get you locked up in a detention centre.
Or it might get you committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Organsiation used secondary sourced interviews of victims and their families and found 99 people had been locked up in psychiatric wards 144 times in the seven years from 2015 to 2021, covering 109 hospitals in 21 provinces, municipalities or regions across China.
Sure, may all those numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. Countless more cases would not have been noticed by NGOs and media, especially in this climate of fear under Xi Jinping that has increasingly closed off China to the outside world.
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