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- world@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- world@quokk.au
When Zhang Junjie was 17 he decided to protest outside his university about rules made by China’s government. Within days he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and treated for schizophrenia.
Junjie is one of dozens of people identified by the BBC who were hospitalised after protesting or complaining to the authorities.
Many people we spoke to were given anti-psychotic drugs, and in some cases electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), without their consent.
While there have been reports for decades that hospitalisation is used in China as a way of detaining dissenting citizens without involving the courts, a leading Chinese lawyer has told the BBC that the issue - which legislation sought to resolve - has recently seen a resurgence.
Junjie says he was restrained and beaten by hospital staff before being forced to take medication.
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“The doctors told me I had a very serious mental disease… Then they tied me to a bed. The nurses and doctors repeatedly told me, because of my views on the party and the government, then I must be mentally ill. It was terrifying,” he told the BBC World Service. He was there for 12 days.
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Just over a month after being discharged, Junjie was once again arrested. Defying a fireworks ban at Chinese New Year (a measure brought in to fight air pollution) he had made a video of himself setting them off. Someone uploaded it online and police managed to link it to Junjie.
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He was accused of “picking quarrels and troublemaking” - a charge frequently used to silence criticism of the Chinese government. Junjie says he was forcibly hospitalised again for more than two months.
After being discharged, Junjie was prescribed anti-psychotic drugs. We have seen the prescription - it was for Aripiprazole, used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
“Taking the medicine made me feel like my brain was quite a mess,” he says, adding that police would come to his house to check he had taken it.
Fearing a third hospitalisation, Junjie decided to leave China. He told his parents he was returning to university to pack up his room - but, in fact, he fled to New Zealand.
He didn’t say goodbye to family or friends.
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Governments anywhere do this.
Don’t try to normalize crimes of the state.
I don’t normalize it. It was horrible but they did it to me in Europe!
What country? That’s not identifiable I should think. Even then, would they care?
The reality is random internet people aren’t going to believe an exceptional claim like that without proof. If you don’t feel safe providing it, then don’t, but you also can’t insist we must believe you without it.
Is there any journalism you’re aware of on the topic?
Yes they care. They have effectively restricted my communications. Here in Europe. It’s just upsetting to see this weaponization of reality. The Brits should do a documentary about their own first. They for sure have their own! I’m not aware of much journalism on the topic!
Stop down voting me! They did it to me in Europe!
I don’t know if you being earnest or not but the reaction of people on here is sad.
They can’t grasp the concept just because we have more civil liberties than China does not mean we don’t have any violations.
In US, spouses would get another one committed out of spite based on lies. Cops can do it too.
Until camera phones, “nobody” believed that police abuse and kill blacks for no reason. Now it is common knowledge.
If you are in fact earnest, I apologize for people attacking you like this. It aint right when the system abuses you and it worse when other pedons act like it never happened.
Thank you for your comment. I try to be earnest. Given my personal knowledge I see the article as information warfare by the Brits. Police, judicial system, psychiatry, lawyers illegally incarcerate people in Europe with fraud.
Oh do tell
I was recently illegally psych warded with fraud twice. They injected me with drugs without consent.
So what happened? Or are you just trolling?
Long story. Personally identifiable. Tired of getting tied down. I’m still tied down. It’s not over for me. See you. You all try to get me into trouble over this.
Ok well I reported you for trolling
I don’t think they are trolling read through their comment history its nonsensical and extraordinarily paranoid about everything. Either this guy actually is schizophrenic or they doing some kind of mkultra type experiment on him.
They have a comment history? For me the only history visible is what they left here. I still think it’s trolling though, I’ve met plenty of people with schizophrenia and never experienced any of them being so vague or flipping the table and calling me delusional. They know that they have delusions or they will try to convince you and have lots of detail, just like you’d expect of anyone who is convinced of something and is trying to convince you.
It’s all just real and you people are delusional. You believe the psy ops. I’m disillusioned.
You’re a liar and I’m not.
Until I see some medical documents for why and what they did I’m doubtful of this claim.
You want to see fraud for illegal incarceration? I have it. You would probably just trust in fraud, why would I trust you?
What are u saying? I want u to provide some evidence to back ur claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence etc etc. Blur out ur personal info (name, DOB, etc).
I let you know I have evidence. I however don’t trust you with the fraud for illegal incarceration.
Your posts have been almost entirely nonsequitors. “I don’t trust you with the fraud for illegal incarceration” doesn’t even parse as a sentence.
You say you have evidence of… whatever it is, post it.
Evidence is in any case personally identifiable. I would talk to journalists.
Then you don’t have any evidence that is relevant to the discussion.
Involuntary institutionalization happens, and can and has been wielded maliciously to political ends in the west, of course. However, the whataboutism here is odd and, at best, tangentially related and unsupported.
Trust me bro isn’t evidence
What does “fraud for illegal incarceration” mean? U believe fraud was committed hence u where illegally incarcerated?
Get me to China or whatever and I’ll talk to journalists?
Seems about right
@ded
If it happened in Europe, you may wish to talk to a lawyer first. Here it just mounts to whataboutism.