Laws were supposed to have ended these arbitrary detentions. An NGO shows that this system continues: it identified 99 victims, hospitalized against their will between 2013 and 2021.
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In Maoist China, the opponents sent by the State as a psychiatric hospital had a name: “Those who are mentally sick”. The system had even been institutionalized in 1988 with the creation of “Ankang”, psychiatric hospitals directly managed by the Ministry of Public Security. However, laws promulgated in 2012 and 2013 on the rights of patients were supposed to have ended these arbitrary detentions. It is not.
A report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders, published on August 16 , shows not only that these confinement of opponents outside of any legal proceedings still exist, but that many psychiatric hospitals managed by The Ministry of Health participate in this system contrary to Chinese and International law. The NGO, installed in Madrid, identified 99 victims, hospitalized against their will between 2013 and 2021 in 109 hospitals distributed in more than 20 provinces. They are only “the emerged part of the iceberg”, says the NGO.
Among the victims identified, 14 are political activists and 80 of simple petitioners: Chinese without political commitment, but who have daring to complain of an injustice or a fact of corruption. Seventy have only undergone one hospitalization and, in the majority of cases, it lasted less than six months. But some are “multihospitalized” and remain locked up for several years. Thus, the nightmare of Jiang Tianlu began in 2004, when this man denounced the officials who had beaten his father to death – and in public – after he denounced their corruption. Since then, Jiang Tianlu does not even know exactly how many hospitalizations he has suffered. No doubt seven. The last intervened in January 2021. He was arrested while accompanied his 7 -year -old daughter at school. Jiang Tianlu claims to have been attached to his bed, beaten and drugged without his knowledge. 2> “No release date”
The hospital record undoubtedly returns to Gu Xianghong, a woman interned on twenty times since 1999 after being beaten by the police. Several testimonies report electroshock and other forms of torture. This is what Dong Yaoqiong would have suffered; This young girl living in Shanghai, in July 2018, threw ink on a portrait of President Xi Jinping and denounced the Chinese “dictatorship” on social networks. Arrested, she will remain locked in a psychiatric hospital until November 2019. According to her father, she came out suffering from a form of dementia due to antipsychotic drugs prescribed by the hospital. Again hospitalized in May 2020, she was released two months later, even more sick, having lost control of her urinary system and suffering from night terrors. According to Safeguard Defenders, her father indicated in February 2021 that the young woman was again hospitalized and would still be today.
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