‘Living in hell’: mentally ill people in Indonesia chained and confined

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Click Here to Read: ‘Living in hell’: mentally ill people in Indonesia chained and confined: Lack of mental health care and community support leaves nearly 19,000 Indonesians vulnerable to outlawed practice, finds Human Rights Watch by Sam Jones on the Guardian website on March 20, 2016.

Residents at a rehabilitation centre for mentally ill people in Galuh, Indonesia. Shackling was banned in the country in 1977, but the practice remains widespread. Photograph: Andreas Star Reese/Human Rights Watch