Ugandan Court Hears Case on Secluding, Restraining Patients

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Benon Kabale speaks during a panel on mental health awareness during the Lubowa Community and Toastmasters Mental Health Run/Walk on November 2, 2024, in Lubowa, Kampala. © 2024 Kiirya Jovan/Toastmaster Lubowa This week, Uganda’s appeals court is set to hear an important case on a government hospital’s use of seclusion and restraints on people with psychosocial disabilities.In 2015, Benon Kabale, a human rights and mental health care reform activist, together with the Centre for Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), sued the government for restraining and keeping…

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