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<\/a>\nA file photo of a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Fuzhou receiving a blood transfusion with bound feet.
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\nA Chinese blogger and a rights activist are being held in mental institutions, rights groups and activists say, sparking fears for their well-being.<\/p>\n
Authorities in the southeastern province of Fujian detained outspoken blogger Shi Genyuan at his home on June 3 and forcibly committed him to the mental health ward of the Quanzhou No. 3 Hospital, according to the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch website.<\/p>\n
Shi’s committal means that only Quanzhou state security police have the power to release him from the facility, although nurses there said he didn’t consent to his detention there.<\/p>\n
A campaign by Shi’s family and friends for his release has come to nothing in the face of threats from Quanzhou state security police, the group said.<\/p>\n
Shi is being held on the basis of a “psychiatric evaluation” carried out by police in August 2013, after he was held on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power” the previous May, it said.<\/p>\n
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