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.

Susan Stefan, a board member of Mental Disability Rights International, said the treatment of those in psychiatric institutions here was "very far behind best international practice," and in violation of international law.

"The law on paper is terrible. It's much worse than Russia," she said.