On May 23, the case of Jiangxi girl Li Yixue, who reported a police officer for harassment and was then sent to a mental hospital, was brought to court. Following this, Li Yixue lost contact with the outside world. Previously, she had exposed the horrifying practices of Jiangxi mental hospitals torturing normal individuals on a social media live broadcast, vowing to challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s judicial and medical systems single-handedly, garnering support and attention from Chinese netizens.
In mid-March 2022, due to a civil dispute, Li Yixue went to the Dinggong Road Police Station in Nanchang City to report an incident, but the police station refused to file a case. Over the next period, Li Yixue visited the police station numerous times regarding the dispute. On April 14, she encountered auxiliary police officer Lai. The next day, Lai arranged to meet with Li Yixue at a hotel. Afterwards, Li Yixue reported to the police station that Lai had behaved inappropriately towards her.
Li Yixue was sent to a mental hospital in Jiangxi Province by the Dinggong Road Police Station that month and stayed for 56 days. After being discharged, she began advocating for her rights on the mainland social media platform “Kuaishou,” revealing that the Jiangxi mental hospital locked up numerous normal individuals while their families were unable to take them out. She disclosed that the nurses in the mental hospital were terrifying, restraining people on the bed and not allowing them to use the restroom, leading them to defecate and urinate in their pants. Li Yixue expressed her initial confusion as to why reporting the auxiliary police officer led to her being sent to a mental hospital, but upon witnessing various cases of people brought in by the police for reasons like applying for community ID cards, arguing with staff and being sent in for petitioning or clashing with the police, she realized she was not the only victim: “People from all walks of life are sent here. Even dogs on the street have to walk around them.”
In a video, Li Yixue revealed that due to suing the police, she had been threatened multiple times by the police. The director of the Dinggong Road Police Station in Nanchang’s Xihu District even threatened her family by saying, “If your daughter dares to sue again after leaving the mental hospital, next time I won’t send her to the mental hospital in Jiangxi Province, but to the asylum, where they can keep you until the day you die.”
Facing various threats and intimidation from the police, Li Yixue continued to expose the brutal methods authorities used to persecute normal citizens through mental hospitals, calling it “more cruel than the Myanmar scam group.”
Li Yixue vowed to challenge both the Chinese Communist Party’s judicial and medical systems single-handedly. Prior to the court hearing on May 23, a large number of netizens flooded Li Yixue’s Kuaishou account to show their support. Some netizens even rushed to the courtroom on the day of the hearing but were prohibited from attending, and Li Yixue lost contact with the outside world after the trial.
On May 27, Epoch Times reporters tried to contact the Qing Shanhu District Court in Nanchang City based on the information on Li Yixue’s subpoena but were unable to reach them.
In recent years, there have been countless cases of the Chinese Communist Party persecuting normal citizens by locking them up in mental hospitals.
Recently, Chinese human rights defender Lin Shengliang, who is exiled in Europe, revealed that internet writer Wang Yuping had been previously sent to a mental hospital and subjected to forced medication by dozens of people while inside. Wang Yuping had written articles advocating for various ways to end the CCP’s one-party dictatorship and its tyranny, and had been sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Intermediate People’s Court of Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, for “incitement to subvert state power” with a sentence until November 7, 2023.
On the other hand, after returning to China from studying in New Zealand, young Chengdu man Zhu Shuang experienced being forcefully sent to a mental hospital by the CCP police for over forty days. During this time, he was stripped, bound, electrocuted, injected with unknown substances, divorced by his wife, and even had his unborn child killed. On May 25, Zhu Shuang called on everyone to support Li Yixue.
Responding to this, former Beijing lawyer and president of the Chinese Alliance in Canada Lai Jianping expressed to Epoch Times that Li Yixue’s disappearance following the court hearing indicates that there are forces obstructing and once again illegally detaining the victim. This represents a typical example of the brutal suppression by the CCP against ordinary Chinese citizens, a blatant and severe violation of their basic human rights.
Lai Jianping, who had seen numerous such cases during his time as a lawyer in Beijing, mentioned that the CCP deals with dissenters in various ways, ranging from imprisonment to enforced insanity leading to suicide, leaving their families unable to attend school or receive retirement benefits.
He stated that by using the method of sending individuals to mental hospitals, they must collude with the hospital authorities, which is essentially illegal detention and at its severest, amounts to abduction.
The Chinese civil rights organization “Civil Rights Observer” released a report on the status of China’s mental health and human rights (being sent to mental hospitals) throughout 2023 on March 14 this year, stating that being sent to mental hospitals remains a significant method used by Chinese authorities to suppress dissenting and rights-defending individuals.
Currently, netizens on Li Yixue’s Kuaishou account are expressing concerns about her safety and showing support by leaving messages: “You are fighting for the entire rule of law in China, keep going!”