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Incarceration of schoolteacher in psychiatric hospital prompts online outcry in China

Chinese social media users are voicing support for Hunan teacher Li Tiantian, believed to be detained in a psychiatric hospital after she spoke out over the expulsion of a Shanghai journalism lecturer who encouraged her students to verify official accounts of the Nanjing massacre.

Li, who is currently pregnant, has been incommunicado since she issued a cry for help on the social media platform Weibo Moments on Sunday as officials from her hometown of Shaba in Hunan’s Yongshun county committed her for psychiatric care.

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