Bulgaria: Amnesty International's Concerns and Recommendations to the Bulgarian government.

Index Number: EUR 15/007/2002
Date Published: 9 October 2002
Categories: Bulgaria, Europe And Central Asia

Amnesty International is concerned about the grave lack of respect for basic human rights of people with mental disabilities in Bulgaria. Some of their basic rights are systematically violated when being subjected to treatment against their will in psychiatric hospitals, or when placed for residential care in social care homes for children or adults with mental disabilities.