In India, women with disabilities are locked up against their will, live
in filth and face forced treatment - even electroshock therapy. A
Q&A with researcher Kriti Sharma on what she found in institutions
across India.
The electroshock therapy room in Thane Mental Hospital. On the bed lies
the headpiece through which an electric current passes to the patient’s
brain in order to provoke a seizure.
© 2013 Shantha Rau Barriga/Human Rights Watch
