Liu Fenglan Has Been Fighting for Her Rights for Six Years and Has Been Forcibly Sent to A Mental Hospital Five Times.
WRIC 02-15-2026
Liu Fenglan, a woman from Hubei province, has been fighting for her rights for six years, enduring five forced admissions to mental hospitals.
Liu Fenglan alleges that between 2021 and 2026, she was repeatedly forcibly admitted to mental hospitals and subjected to torture including electric shocks and forced medication.
Liu Fenglan says she was forcibly admitted to a mental hospital five times, suffering severe torture.
Since being admitted to a mental hospital on October 28, 2021, by village secretary Wang, she has endured 175 days of detention, forced to undergo MECT (Mechanical, Electrically Interventional Therapy) seven times, subjected to bondage and abuse, and forced administration of 2,738 pills—at least 20 pills daily, far exceeding the dosage for actual patients. This resulted in her clothes being soaked with sweat, her throat being injured, and her livestreaming career being forced to stop.
To clear her name, she studied the “Mental Health Law of the People’s Republic of China,” learning that mental illness patients must voluntarily be hospitalized, and that no person or organization other than close relatives may forcibly admit them; otherwise, it is illegal.
On February 7, 2026, she released a cover of the song “Mental Hospitals Must Be ‘Beautiful’,” and netizens in the comments section expressed sympathy and support. Liu Fenglan, a resident, was forcibly placed in a mental hospital and subjected to “chemical torture” simply for legitimately defending her rights, abusing the power of village party secretary Wang Hongshan.
A recent case is that of Xu Xinrui, a female college student from Sichuan. Xu Xinrui was forcibly sent to a mental hospital for reporting the community secretary and had been detained for eight years by 2025. Even though the hospital claimed her “condition was stable,” she was trapped in a vicious cycle of never being discharged because she needed to be picked up by her workplace and both her parents were deceased. The hospital, in turn, received substantial medical subsidies as a result.
According to Minghui.org, Falun Gong has suffered severe persecution for 25 years, with a large number of practitioners dying from drug abuse in mental hospitals; in 2025 alone, 124 people died as a result of persecution, some of whom had been detained in mental hospitals before their deaths.
The anchor of the program “Deep Exposure” commented: In this 175-day illegal detention, medical ethics were utterly nonexistent. The hospital refused to provide medical records, and Wang Hongshan wielded boundless power. Behind this collusion between officials and businessmen, and between government and doctors, lies the complete collapse of grassroots governance. We must ask: Were these 2,738 nerve-destroying drugs intended to treat illness, or to silence witnesses?
The anchor commented that this case marks the extreme deterioration of local stability maintenance methods. They no longer address the demands of the people, but instead directly use drugs and electric shocks to eliminate those who raise them. We urge the international community and legal professionals to continue to pay attention, and not allow “being labeled mentally ill” to become a panacea for official retaliation.
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