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State violence against black patients exposed in UN report

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'.

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.