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“Healing” Dissidents by Forced Psychiatric “Care” in China

Chinese mental hospitals have an euphemistic name: “Ankang”, which literally means “peace and health.” “Peace and Health” hospitals are psychiatric institutions, all of which are administered by China’s Ministry of Public Security, and rumor has it there are about 22 across the country (Lubman, 2016). Ankang hospitals are controlled by the police and used by […]