‘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

Theologian Who Marched With Martin Luther King Arrives in U.S.

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Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1940: Theologian Who Marched With Martin Luther King Arrives in U.S.: ‘Can you tell me if the atomic bomb is kosher?’ Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel interrupted a debate on kashrut by David B. Green on the Haaretz on March 20, 2016.

Heschel (second from right) in the March 21, 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with civil rights and labor leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. is fourth from the right.
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