China’s mental hospitals have become places for the CCP to suppress dissidents, especially Falun Gong practitioners.
Safeguard Defenders, an NGO that has long been concerned with human rights issues in China, released an investigative report on Aug. 16, detailing how Chinese authorities have forcibly detained dissidents under the pretext of “mental illness” for several years.
The report notes that China’s mental hospitals have become a terrifying way for the CCP to make its critics disappear. Without any medical certificate, critics of the regime are kidnapped by Chinese police and taken to mental hospitals, where they are held for months to years. It also said that the compiled cases are only the tip of the iceberg; sending political prisoners to mental hospitals is a common phenomenon in China….