Inside China Today

CCP uses psychiatry as tool of oppression

The Chinese Communist Party has for a long time used official psychiatrists to label dissidents as dangerous psychiatric patients in order to stifle dissent. These dissidents are then sent to special treatment centers and administered with drugs and thought reform programs. One such individual, Song Xiangfen, is at risk of facing this treatment after he published articles advocating democracy in China, angering the regime.

Song Xiangfen from Jingzhou in Hubei province says he hopes to achieve national democracy through peaceful advocacy. He hopes the CCP can relax its rules and peacefully return the governance of the country to the Chinese people. Song says the regime holds an antagonistic view towards these peaceful requests, and is trying to have him assessed as a psychiatric patient so he can be dealt with accordingly.

He says the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Public Security has exerted pressure on him, asking him to get a psychiatric evaluation to see assess his mental condition. Song responded saying whether he is a psychiatric patient is not up to the Bureau of Public Security, and he cannot be made to get an assessment. Song says this is a violation of his personal human rights.

Song hopes the Chinese people can remove themselves from the dictatorial rule of the CCP, and realize democracy. He says under violent oppression, the individual is very fragile, and that humanity’s world is walking toward freedom, human rights and equality as well as safeguarding rule of law. Song believes that all Chinese people should enjoy the same rights, democracy and freedom as the rest of the world and this is what he wants to achieve and is indeed what he’s working on right now.