A video of a middle-aged woman apparently chained to the wall of a shack by her neck has sparked a national conversation in China about the treatment of people with mental illness.
in the city of Xuzhou in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, the footage showed the woman with a chain padlocked around her neck.
Continuing to film, he moved out of the shack and into the courtyard outside where he approached a young boy, who told him when questioned that the woman was his mother. By then, local news outlets had picked up the story and circulated the video, allowing NBC News to view it. “There was no abduction or trafficking,” the Fengxian County Party Committee, a municipal body, said.
The response drew further anger on social media and many criticized authorities for not addressing the use of chains and her overall welfare.
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