Cuba: Treatment of persons who are mentally handicapped and psychologically disturbed
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 January 1991 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | CUB7665 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Cuba: Treatment of persons who are mentally handicapped and psychologically disturbed, 1 January 1991, CUB7665, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab7990.html [accessed 28 May 2023] |
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Specific references to the requested subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. A section of the report Human Rights in Cuba (Washington, D.C./New York: Americas Watch, 1989), pages 86-88 ("Psychiatric Confinement"), contains references to the Havana Psychiatric Hospital, including a brief reference to confinement of criminally psychotic patients. Also attached, please find a copy of pages 3-12 of the report The Rights of Mentally Ill People (London: Minority Rights Group, 1987), which discusses attitudes and practices concerning the mentally ill in the world. Page 3 of the latter attachment contains a reference to a "deliberate abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, and other Soviet-bloc countries". The attached pages of Human Rights in Cuba reports politically-related cases of such abuse. Additional information on this subject can be researched by the IRBDC upon further request. However, as stated above, reports on the situation of the mentally ill in Cuba could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
