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By Jane Chen |
April 23, 2010, Friday
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A NORTH China villager is pleading for freedom after being imprisoned in a madhouse for 6 1/2 years by the local government he had complained against.
Xu Lindong, a villager with Daliu Town of Henan Province's Luohe City, wrote "Help me out!" on a piece of paper during an interview with reporters from China Youth Daily who visited him at Luohe Mental Disease Hospital last Saturday.
He told the newspaper that he was first sent to Zhumadian City Mental Disease Hospital in October 2003 by the township government when he was visiting Beijing to lodge complaints.
He was helping complain for his neighbor Zhang Guizhi over a land dispute between Zhang and the township, because all Zhang's five family members were mentally or physically disabled, he told China Youth Daily.
Xu's own family didn't know about his hospitalization until July 2007.
The family asked the local government to free Xu and called in the media. Officials then transferred him to the Luohe hospital last December, Xu said.
Nurses disclosed that the township has paid his medical fees of around 1,500 yuan (US$219.74) a month for all that time.
Zhumadian hospital's record confirmed Xu's account, showing the Daliu township government had sent him there and paid all the costs, China Youth Daily said.
Luohe hospital's vice director Ding Hongyun yesterday again rejected Xu's brother's request to discharge Xu, saying the family has no right to ask. "It is all up to the township government," he said.
Ding indicated the government has sent many other villagers to the hospital.
Xu told reporters he had been shackled 48 times and was given electric shocks 54 times during his incarceration.
His medical records showed he was diagnosed with paranoia for "insisting on escaping the hospital to continue his complaint against the local government."
Xu Lindong, a villager with Daliu Town of Henan Province's Luohe City, wrote "Help me out!" on a piece of paper during an interview with reporters from China Youth Daily who visited him at Luohe Mental Disease Hospital last Saturday.
He told the newspaper that he was first sent to Zhumadian City Mental Disease Hospital in October 2003 by the township government when he was visiting Beijing to lodge complaints.
He was helping complain for his neighbor Zhang Guizhi over a land dispute between Zhang and the township, because all Zhang's five family members were mentally or physically disabled, he told China Youth Daily.
Xu's own family didn't know about his hospitalization until July 2007.
The family asked the local government to free Xu and called in the media. Officials then transferred him to the Luohe hospital last December, Xu said.
Nurses disclosed that the township has paid his medical fees of around 1,500 yuan (US$219.74) a month for all that time.
Zhumadian hospital's record confirmed Xu's account, showing the Daliu township government had sent him there and paid all the costs, China Youth Daily said.
Luohe hospital's vice director Ding Hongyun yesterday again rejected Xu's brother's request to discharge Xu, saying the family has no right to ask. "It is all up to the township government," he said.
Ding indicated the government has sent many other villagers to the hospital.
Xu told reporters he had been shackled 48 times and was given electric shocks 54 times during his incarceration.
His medical records showed he was diagnosed with paranoia for "insisting on escaping the hospital to continue his complaint against the local government."
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