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                  HRW Concerned About China Mental Health Law

   A U.S.-based rights organization is criticizing a new mental health law
   in China, saying it does not end the country`s system of involuntary
   confinement.
   In a report issued Friday, Human Rights Watch said the involuntary
   confinement of people with mental disabilities falls far short of the
   requirements of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
   Disabilities, which China adopted in 2008.
   HRW China director Sophie Richardson said the new law does not close
   loopholes that allow government authorities and families to lock up
   people in psychiatric hospitals against their will, and without legal
   recourse.
   HRW cited cases of beatings, forced medications and shock treatments,
   and said psychiatric institutions are often used to imprison political
   dissidents, activists and petitioners.
   The rights group called for the immediate release of political
   prisoners from such facilities.
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