June 30 & July 1, 2001
The Russel Tribunal
Berlin, Germany

An investigation into human rights violations in psychiatric practice and mental health legislation as its legal framework is due. The Russell Tribunal on Human Rights in Psychiatry will inquire into the nature of psychiatric diagnosis and ask whether certain psychiatric practices might routinely violate fundamental human rights.

The opening of the trial will take place in Berlin in the summer of 2001. The Tribunal plans to move on to New York and to Jerusalem. The final verdict will be pronounced there, while in Berlin and in New York concluding statements on the preceding inquiries will be made. Witnesses and experts will be heard in all three locations.

The focal issues of the Berlin part of the Tribunal will be the historical bearings of psychiatry and the laws, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and Mental Health Legislation, as well as censorship and stigmatization.

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The Russell Tribunal on Human Rights in Psychiatry

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