Troublemakers: Drugged, framed and detained
Investigation into Chinese police use of psychiatric hospitals to silence critics, hearing from people who dared protest only to be drugged and labelled mentally ill.
成人快手 Eye investigates police abuse of psychiatric detention in China. In 2012, China introduced a law to curb the widespread abuse of psychiatric hospitals by the authorities, but it hasn鈥檛 worked. We reveal how the police found ways to circumvent the law, allowing them to punish protesters without going through the criminal justice system. With almost no checks and balances, the number of people being illegally sent to psychiatric hospitals is said to be surging. Testimonies from protestors, detained for months in secure psychiatric wards reveal how they were restrained, forcibly treated with psychoactive drugs and even subjected to electric shock therapy. Their crime? 鈥淧icking quarrels and troublemaking鈥 the catch all offence police use against anyone threatening to disturb 鈥渟ocial harmony鈥.
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