China passes law to curb abuse of mental hospitals

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In this May 11, 2012 photo, a nurse brings food to a patient who refused to leave her bed at a psychiatric hospital in Zouping county, in eastern China's Shandong province. China's legislature on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, passed a long-awaited mental health law that aims to prevent people from being involuntarily held and treated in psychiatric facilities - abuses that have been used against government critics and have triggered public outrage. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTChina's legislature on Friday passed a long-awaited mental health law that aims to prevent people from being involuntarily held and unnecessarily treated in psychiatric facilities — abuses that have been used against government critics and triggered public outrage.

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