Psychiatrists OK Probe of China
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YOKOHAMA, Japan — The world’s leading psychiatric group agreed Monday to send a mission to China to investigate claims that political dissidents are being treated as mental patients, but it rejected calls for tougher action.
Human rights activists had called on the World Psychiatry Assn. to reconsider China’s membership if evidence of political abuse of psychology was found.
Instead, the group voted to send a team of psychiatrists, if Beijing agrees, to visit mental hospitals to assess reports that government critics, such as members of Falun Gong, are being incarcerated.
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