China holds rebels in Soviet-style asylums



BEIJING’S use of psychiatric detention is now on a par with the treatment of dissidents in the mental asylums of the Soviet Union, according to a new study.

China has charged many of its most outspoken critics with “political monomania” and detained them in psychiatric hospitals, according to Human Rights Watch, which has extensive contacts in China.



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The World Psychiatric Association meets in Yokohama August 23-29 for the XII World Congress on Psychiatry. The Madrid Declaration On Ethical Standards For Psychiatric Practice will be among the items on the agenda.