Stop this cruelty
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.
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