But after four years in Zhumadian imprisoned psychiatric hospital, he was barely distinguishable, his brothers and sisters. Emaciated, barefoot, clad tattered in the striped pajamas, Mr. Xu spoke haltingly. His face was etched with exhaustion.
"I was so heartbroken when I saw him I can't describe" his older brother said Xu Linfu, recalling his first visit there in 2007."My brother was a strong as a Stier.Jetzt saw it as a hospital patient."
Xu Lindong confinement in a locked ward's mental was all the more remarkable, says his brother for an extraordinary fact: he was not the least bit deranged.Durch upset a dispute over land, he had submitted only a number of complaints against the local government. It was the Government's response, an order to entrust to a psychiatric hospital to develop - and then to forge his brother's name on the signature line.
Finally, he became an interview entlassen.In in April, after six and a half years in Zhumadian and a second psychiatric hospital he said he had endured 54 electric shock treatments, was repeatedly to his bed roped and enough to powerlessness it was routinely injected with drugs efficiently.Feared he would be left permanently disabled, he said, he attempted suicide three times.
Mr. Xu's ordeal as an example for far wider problems in China the psychiatric system: gaping lack legal protection against psychiatric abuses, shaky standards of medical ethics and poorly trained psychiatrist and hospital administrators who sometimes requires someone feel - sane or not - who is accompanied by a government officials.
No one knows to be Xu's auftreten.Aber who say human rights activists micro-politics seem in mental hospitals because the local authorities, under pressure to social unrest in the bud, as often as Lord on the rise but at the same time people keep troublemakers prison are less free than they once were.
"" The police know that obsolete.you need someone randomly to illegally capture fear that now ", said Huang Xuetao, a lawyer in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, mental health law specialized.""But officials have discovered this great hole in the psychiatric system and increasingly are the benefits of it."
Worse still, Ms Huang said the Government wasted their lean health care resources harmless petitioners like Mr. Xu neglect to restrict people desperate to help.
"You and a colleague analyzed before recently 300 news reports that with people, which have been for mental illness hospitalized had and others who had not.""Those required to be treated that have not been and those not treated should have been addressed and guarded," concluded your study.
Liu Feiyue, the founder of which civil rights and livelihood watch, a Chinese human rights organization, said his group had a database with more than 200 Chinese citizens, compiled in the last ten years after you were complaints filed wrongly committed to psychiatric hospitals — called petitions in China - against the Government.
He said he believed that the actual number was much higher because compiled his organization list mostly from accounts on the Internet.
"The Government has no place to put these people", he said.
China no longer reveals how many petitioners seek redress, but the Government estimated in 2004, that more than 10 million people to write, or visit the Government petitions each Jahr.Nur two thousand complaints are resolved, according to research, a study cited this year from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In annual performance reviews of local government officials the reduction in the number of petitioners is a measure of good governance that you band betrachtet.So and foment unrest may be wider, is a major black marker that can lead to downgrade.
Classified as crazy
Most often be stubborn petitioners as crazy klassifiziert.In interviewed last year Sun Dongdong, head of forensic Psychiatry at the prestigious Beijing University, said "I have no doubt that at least 99 percent of China's stubborn, persistent 'professional petitioners' are mentally ill."He himself was later apologized for "inappropriate" comment what he said.
Sharon LaFraniere Louhe and Dan Levin from Beijing reported werden.Xiyun Yang contributed reporting from Beijing and research was Helen Gao, Zhang Jing, Ashley Li and Benjamin Haas Beijing contributed.
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