'Isolated, abused and alone': Across the world, hundreds of thousands, including children, are living in chains

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Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health conditions are shackled in 60 countries across the world, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health conditions are shackled in about 60 countries across the world, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Ms Sharma said the belief in many countries “is that people with mental health conditions are bewitched, or possessed or have sinned, and as a result, they have a condition”. “I’ve been chained for five years. The chain is so heavy. It doesn’t feel right; it makes me sad. I stay in a small room with seven men. I’m not allowed to wear clothes, only underwear. I eat porridge in the morning and if I’m lucky, I find bread at night, but not every night,” he said.

Two women are chained in a room at the Coptic Church Mamboleo in Kenya, where over 60 men, women, and children with mental health conditions are detained.Mudinat, a woman with a psychosocial disability chained at a church in Abeokuta, Nigeria, said she eats just once a day and is made to urinate and defecate in bags.

A young woman from Guangdong in China said her aunt was locked up and isolated from the rest of the family.

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