Montreal, 5 February 2007: Freedom Magazine, le Commission des citoyens pour les droits de l’Homme Québec and survivors of the Duplessis Orphans today held a press conference at the Atwater Library to demand an investigation into the massive human rights violations still unresolved surrounding the incarceration of tens of thousands of normal Québec children in psychiatric institutions during the reign of Québec premier Maurice Duplessis. It is estimated that up to 100,000 healthy children were labelled as mentally ill and put in instititional care between 1940 and 1960. Many of the children were used as guinea pigs and experimented upon with unapproved psychiatric drugs, given unnecessary brain operations, electric shocked and labelled for life as mentally ill.
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