Chinese Dissident Tells of Abuse in Asylum - Los Angeles Times

By: LA Times, November 9, 2005 Patients were reportedly subjected to electrical shocks, among other things. The revelations point up hospitals' role as a tool of repression. They are known in Chinese as ankang, or "peace and health." But former inmates describe the country's police-run mental hospitals as decidedly less-than-serene places, with one recently freed political prisoner telling of sadistic nurses who performed electroshock therapy while other patients were forced to watch. DD 11.10.2005

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