Last fall, as China’s lawmakers neared finalizing the country’s first-ever Civil Code, they opened to public comment its draft chapters on marriage and other areas of law. A newly formed coalition of LGBTQ organizations advocating for gay marriage called Ai Cheng Jia (“Love Makes Family”) saw an opportunity. They could use the official comments process which typically only
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Mr. Yu, a homosexual man, was forcibly sent to the Zhumadian Psychiatric Hospital in October 2015. A court in Henan Province ordered the Zhumadian Psychiatric Hospital to pay 5,000 yuan (U.S.$735) and publicly apologize to Mr. Yu in July 2017.
Court Rules Hospital Violated Gay Man’s Liberty
July 7, 2017
By Cai Jiaxin and Li Rongde. This article was first published by Caixin.
A gay man in Henan province has been awarded 5,000 yuan (U.S.$735) in compensation from a local psychiatric hospital where he was locked up for 19 days and forced to take pills and injections as therapy for his homosexuality. In its decision on June 26, the Yicheng District People’s Court in the city of Zhumadian ruled that the Zhumadian Psychiatric Hospital had violated the personal liberty of the 38-year-old man, surnamed Yu, because it held him against his will without proper justification.
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