Pregnant Teacher in China Disappears After Plea for Help From Psychiatric Hospital
She was forcibly admitted to a mental institution after defending another teacher who was fired
By Frank Yue December 24, 2021 Updated: December 24, 2021biggersmaller Print
A Chinese pregnant teacher disappeared soon after she secretly sent out her last message for help from a psychiatric hospital, which she claimed she had been forcibly carried to.
“Find a way to save me,” was the last plea for help received from Li Tiantian, a teacher of rural Yongshun County, central China’s Hunan Province.
She wrote several posts online saying local authorities had been threatening her since Dec. 18. Education authorities, police, and hospital employees forced her to sign her name on documents in a show of her pleading guilty for her online speech. Eventually, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Her posts came after she stood up to support another teacher from Shanghai Zhendan Vocational College, named Song Gengyi.
During class, Song questioned the credibility of the death count of the Rape of Nanking, which officially is listed as 300,000 Chinese deaths. She cited a lack of historical records to support the conclusion.
The school immediately fired Song after receiving a complaint from one of her students due to her remarks not being in line with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rhetoric on the event.
‘If I Die, That Would Be Two Lives’
“Song didn’t deny the violence during the Nanjing Massacre itself,” Li voiced her support on China’s Twitter-like blogging platform Weibo on Dec. 17. “She just presented her individual viewpoint.”
Li said there was nothing wrong with Song’s actions, and she argued what was questionable was the student informing on his teacher, authorities who manipulated the reporting, and intellectuals who stayed silent about the incident.
Soon afterward, Li began receiving threats from officials, according to an internet user named Brother Lou. The user relayed a message from Li, seeking help at 6:09 p.m. on Dec. 18.
She said seven or eight officials from the local education and police authorities suddenly showed up at Li’s front door and coerced her to sign her name on documents admitting her guilt, according to her relayed message. If she refused, she would lose her job and get arrested. They told her that the provincial governor issued an instruction to punish her.
At 4:51 p.m., Dec. 19, Brother Lou relayed a second message from Li, saying the local education authority and the hospital sent people to harass her, requiring her to seek hospital care for injections and medication, citing mental health concerns, according to the message.
“I’m pleading for society’s help,” wrote the country teacher. “If I die, that would be two lives!”
A post spread on social media said Li Tiantian is in her fourth month of pregnancy.
Moreover, her 7:43 p.m. message on the same day shows more than ten people broke into her bedroom and forcibly took her away before she could get properly dressed.
At 9:20 p.m., her last message went to a teacher surnamed Chen, who forwarded it to Brother Lou.
“Teacher Chen, I’m Li Tiantian,” she wrote. “I’m being forcibly held in the psychiatric hospital of Yongshun County by local police.” She said she smuggled the phone in her underwear. “My cellphone’s running out of power.
“Find a way to save me!”
The Epoch Times repeatedly reached out to the local public security bureau and the education bureau but received no reply.
Staff in the Xiangxi Prefecture Psychiatric Hospital declined to provide client information or a phone number, citing privacy concerns.
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