Protecting the Rights of the Innocent
Speakers at the event described highlights of CCHR’s history. The organization has itself earned many accolades for its accomplishments over the years in its crusade to help individuals brutalized by psychiatry and to protect the rights of the innocent. Its first case involved Victor Gyory, a man who had immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1956 after Soviet forces invaded that country. Gyory spoke very little English.
While employed as a dining room assistant in Pennsylvania in 1969, Gyory was found by his supervisor with superficial cuts on his face and arms. After being taken to a local facility for treatment of the injuries, Gyory was transferred to Haverford State Hospital. A psychiatrist there described Gyory as “not very coherent” and wrongfully diagnosed his Hungarian prayers and genuflections as signs of “mental illness.” Psychiatric staff stripped Gyory, administered drugs and placed him in an isolation cell without food. Ignoring his protests and pleas for an attorney, the institution then started electric shock treatments.
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