China forcing political critics into psychiatric hospitals: report

Victims allegedly subjected to electroshock therapy, forced druggings

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China has a history of confining political critics with no history of mental illness to police-run psychiatric hospitals and other state-operated facilities. (Source photos by AP) 

PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- Chinese authorities are pushing political critics into psychiatric hospitals where they are subjected to electroshock therapy and forced drugging nearly a decade after the country passed laws against such abuse, a new report said on Tuesday.

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