Dear friends and supporters, Words such as forced psychiatric treatment and torture recall a dark chapter in Germany’s history as well as similar incidents occurring in authoritarian systems. The thought that psychiatric forced treatment and acts of torture have also occurred in a re-united Germany…
The campaign to expose human rights violations still continues. Today, while handing out the flyer “Psychiatry’s Destructive Force: Survivors and Victims of Forced Treatment and Torture,” Judi Klein raised considerable interest from passers-by in the small city Burg Stargard. This campaign contributes to exposing the…
A dangerous incident occurred today, June 29, 2016, at around 3 p.m. in Ueckermünde. While Judi Klein began handing out flyers and hanging up posters on “Deaths, Victims and Survivors of Psychiatric Forced Treatment and Torture” near the train station in Ueckermünde, three adolescent boys…
After the Ministry for Equality, Labor and Social Affairs in the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania showed no interest in informing the public of the major human rights violations taking place in psychiatric hospitals in Neubrandenburg, Stralsund und Ueckermünde, we continued our campaign to raise awareness…
The fate of victims is also told in the darker corners of Neubrandenburg. A systematic distribution of the flyer “Psychiatry’s Destructive Force” has been arranged for every neighborhood in the city. Dr. Christian Discher
At least we remember those who have fallen victim to or have died in the hands of the psychiatric system. According to an anonymous supporter, the medical staff closely connected to the story told in “The Voices of Those Remaining” seemed to be most concerned…
The article Genital mutilation in hospital order treatment: Autism, hopelessness and suicide in German forensic facilities was translated into Russian by Ernest’s mother Natalia T. The reasons behind translating this article is because, in the past, she was expressly prohibited from talking to her son…
A portrait series on the victims and those who have died in German psychiatric hospitals has only recently been published. One of the victim’s stories told is the story of Michael Perez. A young man with brown eyes and a friendly smile, Michael Perez has…
Today, the psychiatric hospital in Ueckermünde, a town in northeastern Germany, is clearly proud of its 140-year tradition. However, during the Nazi era, disabled children at the hospital were targeted for systematic killing under the banner of the T4 action. The place remained in operation…
How can these practices in Germany be compatible with the guiding principles set out in the UN CRPD? What do such practices have to do with inclusion? Why are those responsible not subjected to closer inspection and scrutiny? If we succeed at shedding light on…
