Posted on 07/22/2014 6:55:14 PM PDT by lbryce
Xing Shiku tortured 'with chains' and 'electric shocks' in psychiatric hospital
The Chinese government routinely uses psychiatric confinements as a tool to control dissidents, a Chinese human rights group said on Monday.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) highlighted the case of Xing Shiku, a Chinese petitioner who has been involuntarily detained at the Daowai District Psychiatric Hospital in Harbin City since February 2007.;
CHRD says Xing was arrested in Beijing for filing complaints to government authorities about corruption and labor violations that occurred due to the privatization of the state-owned company where he once worked. He was then immediately transferred to the psychiatric hospital in northeast China.
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The Russians, and other dictatorships, are also known to do this. In fact, the Soviets imprisoned many dissidents this way, and the Russian Federation has followed suit.
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