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China adopts mental health law to curb forced treatment Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:54 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China adopted a law on Friday to protect for the first time the rights of the mentally ill after years of accusations that psychiatric hospitals are used to lock up people against their will and silence dissidents. Human rights advocates called the hard-fought for law, which has been debated for more than two decades, significant, even though they say it still falls short of ... China passes law to curb abuse of mental hospitals Associated Press via Yahoo! News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:50 AM PDT China's legislature on Friday passed a long-awaited mental health law that aims to prevent people from being involuntarily held and unnecessarily treated in psychiatric facilities â€" abuses that have been used against government critics and triggered public outrage.

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