Chinese Whistle-blowers Sent to Mental Hospital

Evidentally the Chinese feel that being locked up in a mental ward is suitable punishment for speaking one's mind. Guess they have a low opinion of psychiatry too, since they're equating their hospitals with prisons. Once these people are diagnosed, they lose their legal rights. And so much for human rights.

—"Whistle-blowers in Chinese City sent to Mental Hospital," by Andrew Jacobs, December 8, 2008, nytimes.com