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Chaining of people with mental illness in Ghana is ‘torture’: HRW

In a traditional healing centre in Ghana, Human Rights Watch found 22 men with chains around their ankles [Shantha Rau Barriga/Human Rights Watch]

Ghana must take “immediate steps” to end the shackling and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions, Human Rights Watch has said, a practice that continues despite legislation against it.

“Chaining people with psychosocial disabilities in prayer camps and healing centres is a form of torture,” Shantha Rau Barriga, the disability rights director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Thursday.

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