Li Tiantian, the pregnant Hunan elementary school teacher forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward after voicing support for a fired Shanghai professor, has been released from the hospital—and chosen self-exile. In December...
A pair of essays this week illustrates different parts of the spectrum of methods with which...
In a new report released this week, New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the Chinese...
China’s new mental health law, for all its faults, has substantially addressed the problem...
Keira Lu Huang at The South China Morning Post reports that a woman who was detained illegally and...
China passed its first mental health law in October, after almost thirty years of efforts. The new law is intended to address issues such as patent privacy and wrongful institutionalisation but, according to Elizabeth M. Lynch...
Xinhua reports that, after almost 30 years of efforts, China has adopted its first mental health law to protect patient privacy and other rights, and to combat the problem of wrongful institutionalisation. Under the new law,...
Human Rights In China has published the story of Li Jinping, an ardent supporter of Zhao Ziyang, victim of forced demolition, and former Chaoyang public security officer. Li writes that he was held in a Beijing psychiatric...
The following news item is from China Police Net. The news is entitled: Mental Hospitals Cannot Admit Normal People Without Police Approval. Excerpts translated by CDT: Reporting from Wuhan, May 27, 2010. Reporter Qin Qianqiao...
The PBS Newshour reports on political dissidents and petitioners in China who are sentenced to psychiatric hospitals:
Preparing for the Olympics is not just limited to Beijing. Changshu is a small city in Jiangsu province, with a population of more than a million. The following text is from the official site of the Public Health Bureau of...
From The Los Angeles Times (link): A psychiatric examination performed on a former patient held for 13 years in a police-run Chinese mental hospital has concluded that there was no cause for his detention, human rights groups said Thursday in condemning Beijing’s political abuse of psychiatry.Dutch psychiatrists who tested Wang Wanxing, 56, over a two-day […]
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