Organisation: Mental Disability Rights International

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

MEPs highlight Romanian children’s rights abuses

The European Parliament is coming under fire for failing to focus on children’s rights abuses in Romania during accession talks.

Sun, 21 May, 2006

Turkey using electric shock 'torture' on patients

Patients in Turkish psychiatric hospitals are held down and given electric shock treatment without anaesthesia, a Washington-based human rights group has said, calling the practice a form of torture and urging the European Union to demand an end to it.

Fri, 30 Sep, 2005

Turkey accused of abusing patients with electric shocks

A WASHINGTON-BASED human rights group has accused Turkey of subjecting mental health patients to serious abuses, including electric shock treatment without anaesthesia, and is urging the European Union to demand an end to the practices.

Fri, 30 Sep, 2005

Treatment of mentally ill ‘worse than Russia’

IRELAND’S treatment of the mentally ill is shocking and Orwellian, a leading international expert in mental health legislation will tell a conference in Dublin today.

Wed, 10 Dec, 2003