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China: Gay man sues over shock ‘treatment’
http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/china-gay-man-sues-over-shock-treatment-1-3495765The Scotsman
China: Gay man sues over shock ‘treatment’
by LOUISE WATT IN BEIJING
01 August, 2014
A gay Chinese man is suing a mental health clinic for carrying out electric shock treatment meant to turn him heterosexual.
Yang Teng yesterday also revealed he planned to sue the internet search engine Baidu for advertising the clinic which he attended.
The Beijing LGBT Centre, which campaigns for gay rights, said it was the first court case involving “conversion therapy” in China. China only declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 2001.
The centre’s executive director, Xin Ying, said some professional hospitals in China, as well as smaller private clinics, still provide the so-called therapy....
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