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What does the Citizens
Commission on Human Rights (UK) do?
Thousands of individuals contact CCHRs each
year to report abuse and criminality, false imprisonment, fraud,
sexual abuse and inhumane treatment and conditions in psychiatric
institutions. CCHRs document the abuse and help the individual report
the matters to the proper authorities. They also conduct investigations
into wider psychiatric issues, such as insurance fraud, high death
rates reported in institutions or the inappropriate drugging of
children.
In the last ten years, CCHR investigations
have led to the prosecution of over a thousand psychiatrists, psychologists
and mental health workers around the world for the criminal abuse
of patients and fraud.
Through CCHR's achievements, thousands of
abuse victims have been rescued, patients have regained legal and
civil rights, mental health acts have outlawed the arbitrary use
of electric shock and psychosurgery and banned these practices on
children, and legislation has been enacted to ensure psychiatric
rape of patients is dealt with as a criminal offence.
CCHRs do not provide medical or legal advice.
However, they work closely with psychiatrists and medical doctors,
and criminal, medical negligence and human rights lawyers.
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