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| China has been accused of forcing its opponents into psychiatric hospitals. (photo: AFP) |
China's use of psychiatric hospitals to incarcerate social workers without meeting legal requirements has been revealed.
A non-governmental organization has said in its released report that the Chinese authorities have been using psychiatric hospitals for decades to punish political prisoners.
In China, these psychiatric hospitals are known as 'Ankang'.
Spain's "Safe Guard Defenders" organization said in its report released on Tuesday that despite the introduction of reforms in China in 2010, this procedure continues today.
The data in the report is from the victims and their families.
Based on interviews that examined the statements of 99 people who were forcibly detained in psychiatric hospitals on political grounds between 2015 and 2021.
According to the organization, in 2022 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was still a political dissident.
are being held in psychiatric hospitals even though the law was amended 10 years ago to prevent these practices.
According to the organization, the Communist Party can block access to the justice system for petitioners and social workers who are denied the right to a lawyer or to be prosecuted, while labeling them as 'mentally ill' and socially isolating them.
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| China is accused of running detention camps in Xinjiang. (Photo: AFP) |
The social organization says that with the collusion of CCP with doctors and hospitals, victims are kept unnecessarily in every hospital and drugs are forcibly given.
The report said the detainees were subjected to physical and mental torture while being held in solitary confinement and given electric shocks.
Among the detainees was a young girl who tweeted a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Earlier, social activists and Western governments have accused China of keeping Muslim minorities in campuses in China's western Xinjiang province where they are subjected to torture and forced labor. Is.
While China has declared these campuses as training centers and has adopted the position that training is given here to fight terrorism.
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