Based on an August 2022 report titled Drugged and Detained: China’s psychiatric prisons by human rights group Safeguard Defenders, government agents and police in China persist in detaining government critics in psychiatric facilities, notwithstanding “reforms.”

Domestically termed as ankang in Mandarin, after the system of police- operated psychiatric prisons introduced in the 1980s, most victims are detained in regular psychiatric wards nowadays. What this implies is that doctors and hospitals team up with the communist authorities to expose victims to medically-unnecessary involuntary hospitalizations as well as forced medication. For instance, doctors unlawfully do not conduct psychiatric evaluations prior to admission. Moreover, victims at these facilities are beaten, tied up, forced to undergo electroshock therapy, and kept incommunicado. To make matters worse, victims can be locked up for days, weeks, months or years, with some having been detained in facilities for more than 10 years.

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