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Good old soviet doctrine of locking dissidents in mental hospitals and torturing them, commies never change.
Example A of why you should always have a trusted friend or family member that you make contact with regularly and the understanding of "if you don't hear from me in x amount of time. Something's probably happened to me."
Seems there are people for whom whataboutism never ends. In this context, I personally find this particularly disgusting.
Addition: There is also a BBC documentary about it.
Troublemakers: Drugged, Framed and Detained -- (Alternative Invidious link, 49 min)
This in-depth investigation reveals how the [Chinese] police found ways to [...] to punish protestors without going through the criminal justice system. With almost no checks and balances, the number of people being illegally sent to psychiatric hospitals is said to be surging.
Testimonies from three protestors, detained for months in secure psychiatric wards reveal how they were restrained, forcibly treated with psychoactive drugs and even subjected to electric shock therapy.
Their crime? “Picking quarrels and troublemaking” - the catch all offence police use to sweep up anyone threatening disturb “social harmony”.
They did this to me in Europe!