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China’s police psychiatric hospitals and the petitioners’ accounts
Police-run Ankang hospitals (about 20 as of 2011); petitioners, Falun Gong practitioners, and activists confined; since 2010s mostly in ordinary wards with police–hospital cooperation
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International comparison register · Batch 1
- Country / period
- China, 1980s–present
- Mechanism
- Police-run Ankang hospitals (about 20 as of 2011); petitioners, Falun Gong practitioners, and activists confined; since 2010s mostly in ordinary wards with police–hospital cooperation
- Documentation and status
- VERIFIED: HRW 2002 Dangerous Minds; HRW 2013; Safeguard Defenders 2022 (140+ sources, 2015–2021)
- Similarity to California
- Confinement used against complainants and petitioners — the closest analogue to "silencing a person who files grievances"; NGO notes it "acts as a deterrent"
- Difference from California
- Police run or direct the facilities; the 2013 law exempts Ankang hospitals; no effective court review
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Reference and provenance
1980s–present-CHINA-ANKANG