Troublemakers: Drugged, Framed and Detained
Investigation into Chinese police use of psychiatric hospitals to silence critics, hearing from people who dared protest only to be drugged and labelled mentally ill.
麻豆官网首页入口 Eye investigation into police abuse of psychiatric detention in China.
In 2012, China introduced a law to curb the widespread abuse of psychiatric hospitals by the authorities, but it hasn鈥檛 worked.
This in-depth investigation reveals how the police found ways to circumvent the law, allowing them to punish protestors without going through the criminal justice system. With almost no checks and balances, the number of people being illegally sent to psychiatric hospitals is said to be surging.
Testimonies from three protestors, detained for months in secure psychiatric wards reveal how they were restrained, forcibly treated with psychoactive drugs and even subjected to electric shock therapy.
Their crime? 鈥淧icking quarrels and troublemaking鈥� the catch all offence police use to sweep up anyone threatening disturb 鈥渟ocial harmony鈥�.
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