A desperate suicide attempt was the only thing that spared a Chinese rights defender from ongoing torture at a psychiatric hospital in China’s megacity of Shenzhen.
Jie Lijian was in his 30s when he was forcefully hospitalized by police for the third time in 2018, suffering again at the hands of the Chinese regime for calling for the release of jailed workers and students who were advocating for the protection of labor rights in the Guangdong Jiashi community.
The activist was detained for three days, and after being tortured in prison, was sent to a modern Kangning Hospital in Shenzhen for “forced hospitalization and treatment” for 52 days. He described it as “the largest Auschwitz terror concentration camp made in China in the 21st century.”…