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  • Indonesia: Treating Mental Health With Shackles

    (Jakarta, March 21, 2016) – People with psychosocial disabilities in Indonesia are often shackled or forced into institutions where they face abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 74-page report, “Living in Hell: Abuses against People with Psychosocial Disabilities in Indonesia,” examines how people with mental health conditions often end up chained or locked up in overcrowded and unsanitary institutions – without their consent – due to stigma and the absence of adequate community-based support services or mental health care. In institutions, they face physical and sexual violence; involuntary treatment, including electroshock therapy; seclusion; restraint; and forced contraception.
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