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Research batch 4
Batch 4.
Batch 4 (6 Oct 2026) opens Romania, Cuba, Australia and South Africa, adding a second "complaint channel" finding (Chelmsford) and a US federal jury finding on Cuban electroshock \[corrected, Batch 18/D03: the 2002 conviction was for unlawful procurement of naturalization; what the jury found about electroshock is unestablished\] torture (Mederos, 2002).
consolidated record; no separate original batch file supplied. The full source retains additional narrative, method, bibliography and correction sections.
Read the full source record →Chelmsford: deep-sleep therapy and the inquiry that followed
Australia (NSW), 1963–1979
Royal Commission (Slattery, 1990)
Read the recordVasile Paraschiv’s resistance and psychiatric confinement
Romania, 1968–1989
Worker Vasile Paraschiv quit the Party publicly in 1968, wrote to the Central Committee in 1971 and tried to found a free trade union; confined to psychiatric hospitals (1978 onward) and forcibly injected with neuroleptics without psychiatric symptoms; psychiatrist Ion…
Read the recordMazorra: political prisoners’ accounts and the Cuban record
Cuba, 1963–1980s
Brown & Lago documented 27–31 dissidents (sources differ) diagnosed with conditions such as "apathy toward socialism"; nurse Heriberto Mederos named by ten victims
Read the recordApartheid psychiatry: segregation, confinement, and publication limits
South Africa, 1970s–1980s
WHO report Apartheid and Mental Health Care (MNH/77.5, 1977); APA Special Committee visit report (Am J Psychiatry 136:1498, Nov 1979) confirming "grossly inferior" care and "needless deaths" among Black patients; RCPsych special committee 1983; Anti-Apartheid Movement…
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