China: people—many with no obvious mental disabilities— locked up against their will in China’s psychiatric institutions?

Chinese Government Institutionalizes People Against

Their Will: Chinese Human-Rights Defenders

Paul Mooney

Every year, thousands of healthy Chinese are forcibly locked up and ‘treated’ in mental institutions, according to a new report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

Prominent human-rights lawyer Jin Guanghong was walking down a street in Beijing one day in April 2011 when he was grabbed by several unidentified men, who threw a black hood over his head and stuffed him into the back of a car. 

The men, believed to be national security officers, later placed him in a psychiatric hospital where doctors tied him up, force-fed him medicine and gave him unknown injections, all against his will. When he was released about 10 days later, he had no idea about what exactly had happened to him during the frightening ordeal.
....................
Read more: www.thedailybeast.com