New rules so that only those truly mad and dangerous hospitalized

THE SUPREME PEOPLE'S PROCURATORATE has issued new rules on compulsory medical decision procedure supervision to prevent those convicted of crimes escaping punishment by pretending to be mentally ill so they bear no criminal responsibility, and people being hospitalized to shut them up. Thepaper.cn comments:

Before 2012, when the Criminal Procedure Law was revised, it only took the administrative authorities to decide whether to carry out enforced hospitalization of people they deemed a threat to public order or national security.

As a result, some criminals escaped from justice by bribing officials to declare them mentally ill, while some healthy people were hospitalized by force and treated as psychopaths just to keep them quiet.