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A Cuckoo's Nest that no one can fly over
Why locking petitioner into mental hospital the ultimate solution the locla authorities can come up with?
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Xu Wu presenting his second mental diagnosis result in Guangzhou
The past week has seen a real-life version of film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” reenacted in China. The Chinese protagonist, Xu Wu, has been detained in a psychiatric hospital for four years over a labour dispute against a state-run enterprise in Wuhan, Hubei province.
First Financial Daily quoted a May 1 report from Xinhua news agency that said Xu Wu, a worker at the Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp in Hubei province, was escorted by police from Guangzhou back to the hospital to undergo treatment once more.
The police said it was up to the Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp hospital to decide whether Xu should be discharged. The hospital on the other hand said the police should decide whether Xu could be released.
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Xu Wu's parents calling their son's name outside the mental hospital
Xu escaped from the hospital on April 19 and made his way to Guangzhou, where he undertook a psychiatric assessment on April 21 at the Guangzhou Psychiatric Hospital. The test showed that he had low self-esteem and was slightly depressed but was otherwise mentally stable.
Accompanied by a friend, Xu met the press in Guangzhou after complaining that the Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp's hospital had confined him as a mental patient since December 2006. He claimed he was detained because he had sued the corporation for offering him a salary lower than other employees received for similar tasks. In addition, he said he visited Beijing to file his complaint with the central government.
He escaped from the hospital and went to Beijing to make a complaint again in May 2007 but was arrested and taken back to the hospital. The institution diagnosed him as suffering from paranoia in November 2008 and he was required to be treated in custody.
First Financial Daily tried to contact Xu's parents but discovered that officials from the steel corporation had taken them away on May 3.
Neighbors say they do not recall Xu having any mental health problems. Several of them said he was a polite young man who never quarreled with anyone.
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Xu Wu's parents at the gate of a mental hospital holding Xu's I.D. photo.
Zhang Zanning, director of the health law research center at Southeast University, said "Law enforcement officials are not entitled to confine mentally ill patients unless they pose a danger to the public."
It is not clear in the current law whether police are required to obtain family members' permission or an authorized diagnosis before they take action, Zhang said.
"As a result, abuse of power by some law enforcement officials occurs and the rights of mental patients and their families are violated."
It is not the first time that a petitioner has being diagnosed as mentally ill.
Xu Lindong a petitioner from Henan Province, was taken away from Beijing in October 2003 and sent to an asylum in Zhumadian, Henan, where he was locked away for six and a half years. In April 2010 he was rescued and received compensation of 300,000 yuan ($44,000).
A commentary carried by the People's Daily on Thursday called for a mental health law and transparency when admitting mentally ill patients to hospitals.
In China, fabricating a mental health report is much easier than getting through the complex judiciary mill. Once one is identified as a person of unsound mind, his words are neither trusted nor legally effective. If mental hospitals are out of sight of public and judicial scrutiny, it can become a black jail where citizens are persecuted without being noticed.
This case is especially terrifying in the sense that the company in cahoots with the mental hospital are so powerful that the heavy hand of the local police came down on a patient at worst a thousand kilometers away from their due jurisdiction and has not relented a bit even after word about the incident spread nationwide quickly via the media and the web.
A net user commented, “If the matter is let to slide, it will leave people in constant nightmare.”