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China executes mentally ill Brit, first Westerner since 1951

Interview

December 29, 2009
China executes mentally ill Brit, first Westerner since 1951

China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling, despite his family's protestations that he was mentally unstable. The incident has provoked outrage around the world. Andrew James Nathan, a political science professor at Columbia University, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the death penalty in China.

Chinese dissidents thrown into mental hospitals

Video

December 9, 2008
Chinese dissidents thrown into mental hospitals

Andrew Nathan, an expert on human rights at Columbia University, discusses reports that Chinese citizens who challenge authorities are being thrown into psychiatric hospitals and forcibly medicated.

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