English | 中文
2013 05 18
FacebookTwitterRSS
  • • Politics
  • • Society
  • • Culture
  • • World
  • • Translation
    • • Ministry of Truth
    • • Sensitive Words
    • • Netizen Voices
    • • Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon
    • • Word of the Week
    • • Drawing the News
  • • More
    • • Hong Kong
    • • Sci-Tech
    • • Taiwan
    • • Environment
    • • Human Rights
    • • Information Revolution
    • • The Great Divide
    • • CDT Bookshelf

Video: Chinese Dissidents Committed to Mental Hospitals

The PBS Newshour reports on political dissidents and petitioners in China who are sentenced to psychiatric hospitals:

September 13, 2009 11:01 AM
Posted By: Sophie Beach
Categories: Human Rights, Politics
Tags: dissidents, petitioners, psychiatry, videos
READ ALL COMMENTS (6) ADD A COMMENT

Related Stories

  • 2013.05.07 Was Fang Lizhi a “Black Hand” in 1989?
  • 2013.05.07 Obama, Minister of China Petitions?
  • 2013.05.01 New Mental Health Law Comes Into Effect
  • 2013.04.30 Rape Cases Reveal Institutional Problems
  • 2013.04.29 Police Silence Visitors to Executed Dissident’s Grave
  • 2013.04.25 Lawyer: Liu Xiaobo Reading, “Gaining Weight”
  • 2013.04.08 Petitioners’ Last Hope: Foreign News Media
  • 2013.04.02 A Day in the Life of a Beijing ‘Black Guard’
  • 2013.03.05 China’s Black Jail Industry
  • 2013.02.05 Ten Imprisoned for Illegally Detaining Petitioners
  • 2013.02.04 Chang Ping on Media Censorship and Its Future
  • 2013.01.22 Re-education Through Labor To Be “Abolished”
  • 2012.12.14 New Mental Health Law: More Problems than Solutions?
  • 2012.12.12 Breaking the Cycle of Petition and Interception
  • 2012.12.08 Mo Yan Addresses Critics in Nobel Lecture
  • 2012.12.04 British Ministers Barred from Meeting Dalai Lama
  • 2012.12.02 China Denies Black Jail Sentencing
  • 2012.11.12 Chinese Farmers Fight Back Against State Controls
  • 2012.11.10 Activists, Petitioners Not Invited to Party Congress
  • 2012.11.09 Kafka in Beijing

CDT Highlights

  • Ministry of Truth: Kunming Environmental Protest
  • Ministry of Truth: Occupiers, Workers, Molesters
  • Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The Chicken Republic
  • Drawing the News: Petitions, Secrets, and Vows
  • Phrase of the Week: Compare Fathers
  • Sensitive Words: Black Jails, Red Bandits
  • Netizen Voices: Don’t “Suicide” Me! A Weibo Vow
  • Xu Zhiyong: On the New Citizens’ Movement
  • Ministry of Truth: Anniversary of Sichuan Quake
  • Sensitive Words: Seven Don’t Mentions and More
More »

CDT Features

Leadership Transition in Beijing
CDT 2012 News Map
Tibetan Self-Immolations
Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon
CDT Translations
Hexie Farm (蟹农场) Series

China Video

Popular Posts

  • Sensitive Words: Beijing Protest After "Suicide"
  • China Plans New Generation of Aircraft Carriers
  • Sensitive Words: Seven Don't Mentions and More

From the Archives

  • Phrase of the Week: Very Erotic, Very Violent
  • Rural China Misses 'Barefoot Doctors'
  • Chinese Censors Cut Off Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr (Updated)
  • China Currency Reserves Rise to Record $1.9 Trillion (Videos Added)
  • Drawing the News: Sandy, Sparta and Beyond
Creative Commons License

China on the Web

  • The Anthill
  • Asia Pacific Memo : China
  • Caixin online
  • China Dialogue
  • China Geeks
  • ChinaFile
  • China Media Project
  • Danwei
  • The Economist : China
  • FT.com : beyondbrics : China
  • Global Times
  • Great Fire.org
  • The Guardian : China
  • Ministry of Tofu
  • New Yorker : Letter from China
  • The New York Times : China
  • Shanghaiist
  • Sinocism Daily China Readings
  • South China Morning Post
  • Wall Street Journal : China Real Time
  • Tea Leaf Nation
  • #China on Twitter
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Subscribe to Us
CDT Online Store
China Digital Times is supported by the Berkeley Counter-Power Lab | 2011 Copyright © China Digital Times | Powered by WordPress