Hahn also accepted the human rights award for Toni Skarica, Canadian Member of Parliament recently appointed Chairman of Ontario’s Crime Control Commission, and the man Hahn asked to help the victims she had found. Skarica joined the investigation in 1997, visiting facilities in New York and Texas. His investigation resulted in the Texas Attorney General filing a lawsuit against a psychiatric hospital chain involved, the return home for Canadian patients detained in U.S. facilities, and a crackdown on fraud.
When fellow journalist and CCHR award winner Ms. Toni Eatts first contacted CCHR in Sydney, Australia almost two decades ago, she, like Hahn, did not anticipate the magnitude of what she was about to discover. As told by actress Nancy Cartwright in her introduction to Eatts, the journalist intended only to get some information on one of several psychiatrists who practiced “Deep Sleep Treatment” for a book she estimated would be six months in the making. Deep Sleep Treatment (DST) consists of knocking patients into a drug-induced, near-comatose state for as much as several months on end, during which time they are repeatedly subjected to brain damaging electric shock, with the purpose of re-conditioning how they think and behave. CCHR had been investigating reported deaths from DST at Sydney’s Chelmsford Hospital, the home of DST’s prime author, Dr. Harry Bailey.
Six months became a decade while Eatts worked alongside CCHR, whistleblowers and victims, and formed the Chelmsford Survival Group to battle a bureaucracy insensitive to the situation. In Australia, 1,100 people were documented to have been subjected to the brutality of DST between the 1960s and 1980s, and a known 48 victims died. Eatts generated unprecedented national media coverage on the abuses at Chelmsford and sparked a two-year Royal Commission Inquiry which resulted in compensation for 283 victims and the ban of DST.
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