General information

Call No.:

392-1-1:51/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-1-1 Video Recordings of WITNESS: Activist films of Witness: Documentary films and promotional videos of Witness

Located at

DVD-ROM #51 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-1-1_051

Date of production

2003

Date

2003

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

8 min.

Notes

Partner: Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI)

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) are seeking the urgent intervention of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to prevent continued unlawful acts that threaten the rights to life, liberty and personal security of two boys, Jorge, age 18, and Julio, age 17, and 458 others detained in the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital of Paraguay. The two boys are detained in approximately six-by-six feet isolation cells, naked, and without access to bathrooms. According to hospital staff, the boys have been detained in these conditions for the past four years.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder, Producer)

MDRI (Copyright holder, Producer)