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China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-09 07:45

It is difficult to believe this can happen in a sane society. It is even more difficult to imagine some township governments being involved in this. But truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction.

More than a dozen local residents were sent to a mental hospital by local governments simply because they repeatedly petitioned higher authorities for solutions to their problems.

It happened in several townships in the city of Xintai in Shandong province.

Stop this cruelty

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