Originally published by Gatestone Institute
Commentary
China’s regime is torturing and killing critics, petitioners, activists, dissidents, and religious adherents in psychiatric hospitals, thereby bypassing its horribly misdescribed criminal justice system. The “barbaric practice,” as a Madrid-based NGO termed it last month, is still widespread.
Safeguard Defenders, in “Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons,” details how police and government agents are sending Chinese citizens “for medically unnecessary involuntary hospitalizations” in the police-run ankang system, which was established in the 1980s.
The new report updates work by leading researcher Robin Munro, the author of “Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the Mao Era” and the groundbreaking 2000 article “Judicial Psychiatry in China and Its Political Abuses.”…