A young woman from the Chinese province of Jiangxi has disappeared amid legal action she was taking against a psychiatric hospital she claimed was holding and abusing sane people. The missing woman, Li Yixue, also alleged that the psychiatric hospital was committing human rights abuses in collusion with the police. Ms. Li gained public attention through her live-streaming videos on social media that exposed human rights abuses against people with no mental illnesses being held in Jiangxi Mental Hospital.
Through her legal actions, Ms. Li vowed to challenge the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) judicial and medical systems. She has gained wide support from the Chinese public. Her efforts follow her own experience with both the police and Jiangxi Mental Hospital. In March 2022, Ms. Li went to the Dinggong Road Police Station in Nanchang city of Jiangxi Province to report a civil dispute, but the police station refused to file a case for it. An auxiliary police officer surnamed Lai at the station told Ms. Li to meet him in a hotel to talk about filing the case. After the meeting, Ms. Li went to the police station to report that Lai sexually assaulted her at the hotel, according to Chinese media reports.
In the same month, the police at the Dinggong Road Police Station forcibly sent Ms. Li to Jiangxi Mental Hospital and locked her up there for 56 days. After being discharged from the hospital, Ms. Li sued it for medical malpractice, stating that the hospital’s compulsory hospitalization of her was illegal. On Dec. 6, 2022, the first lawsuit of her case was held, but the court made no decision on the matter. Following the no verdict, Ms. Li continued to speak out on the Chinese short video-sharing platform Kuaishou, where she revealed the crimes inside the psychiatric hospital that she experienced and witnessed while accusing the police and the hospital in collusion with persecuting Chinese citizens.
Before the second lawsuit on May 23, a large number of Chinese netizens posted on Ms. Li’s Kuaishou account to show their support. Lai Jianping, a former Beijing lawyer and chairman of the China Alliance for Democracy and Justice in Canada, told The Epoch Times that there must be some force behind Ms. Li’s disappearance related to the legal case. They are illegally detaining her again, he said.
Mr. Lai said he saw many similar cases when he was a lawyer in Beijing. This is a typical brutal suppression of ordinary Chinese citizens by the CCP’s cruel officials. It is a blatant and serious violation of the basic human rights of Chinese citizens,” he said. They adopted the so-called method of committing the patients to a mental hospital, which must have been in collusion with the hospital administration. In fact, this is an illegal detention, and to be more serious, it is kidnapping.
