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State violence against black patients exposed in UN report

Sunday, 24 April 2016 11:19 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 24 April 2016 11:17 PM ]

File photo shows protesters holding a poster in memory of Sean Rigg who died in police custody in south London in 2008.

Amina Taylor
Press TV, London

The UK's leading black mental health pressure group has presented a scathing report to a special UN session entitled 'State Violence Against People of African Descent in the UK'. The document raises a number of human rights concerns over the treatment often experienced by black people in the UK, especially those detained under the Mental Health Act.

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