25 Jun 2015

Watch: Short documentary lifts lid on 'conversion therapy' in China

Al Jazeera's digital video channel explores widespread practice, and one man who fought back.

Across China, families send gay sons and daughters to “conversion clinics” that claim to make their patients straight.


Last year, Yanzi Peng took a stand and sued the clinic that hypnotized him and gave him electroshock therapy. AJ+ follows Yanzi as he takes the unprecedented step to file a lawsuit against a clinic and fights to end the practice.