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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 11, 2008
An Urgent Plea for Assistance: UNITE / CHAADA Members Demand Immediate
Release and Protection of Rebecca Merhav; Survivors and Activists Protest Cruel
Experiments & Call For Restoration of Human Rights
Contact:
Amy Philo 214-705-0169 home or 817-793-8028 cell (USA numbers)
email:
amy@uniteforlife.org
www.uniteforlife.org,
www.chaada.org
Ben Merhav
benjaminmerhav@hotmail.com
Camille Milke
505-269-2286
direct or
505-213-0999 fax (USA numbers)
email: sarinasvoice@aol.com
www.copesfoundation.com,
http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html
The 265-plus individual members and
affiliated organizational members of CHAADA (Children and Adults Against
Drugging America), together with sister organization UNITE (United Non-Profits
and Individuals for Truth and Ethics), call for the urgent assistance of all
allies and human rights organizations, as well as individuals who defend human
rights. It is imperative that all capable parties intervene on behalf of Rebecca Merhav (and her father Ben Merhav) to preserve her life and safety, and to
achieve freedom and an end to psychiatric torture in her case.
Rebecca Merhav of Australia is the daughter of Benjamin Merhav. Rebecca's mother
had her hospitalized as a teen when she became defiant and would not do her
chores. Psychiatrists have placed a CTO or Compulsory Treatment Order on Rebecca
and she has been forcibly "medicated" (drugged) for over 30 years. Despite the
fact that Rebecca does not want to take drugs, and her father (a cancer survivor
who used natural therapies to recover) wants her to be free from drugs,
psychiatrists continue experimenting on her.
Rebecca has been subjected to Clozapine,
the most dangerous of all "antipsychotic" drugs, and now she is being forced to
take 400 mg of Seroquel daily and 75 mg injections of Risperdal every 10 days.
She is being held in a clinic against her will to ensure she takes the drugs.
Her chances of continued survival diminish with each passing day because these
drugs have a proven risk of sudden death in addition to gradual
deterioration of the body from the toxic effects of the drugs.
The right to life, the right to control over one's own choices, freedom to live
in the place of one's choosing, freedom over one's own body - these are basic
human rights that all people should expect to have. Rebecca has not posed any
danger to herself or others or committed any crime, and despite the cruel and
toxic drugs and incarceration which so often lead to hopelessness and despair,
Rebecca's will to live has prevailed and enabled her to survive with hope of
rescue. She has persevered through torture for 30 years. Prior attempts and
pleas, petitions, and evidence of harm presented to the authorities have failed.
Your assistance and expertise are therefore desperately needed.
Whether you normally reach out to help individuals, or prefer to address
systemic issues by tackling larger organizations and issues, if we allow this
torture of Rebecca to go on, what is to prevent this from happening to us, or to
our own children?
Furthermore, solving this once and for all and freeing Rebecca will set a
meaningful precedent,
thereby
increasing the chances that more victims
can now be saved.
All those interested in offering their assistance can start by sending a letter
to the following addresses as soon as possible:
To:
s.wilkins@alfred.org.au
cc:
lisa.neville@minstaff.vic.gov.au;
jesse.martin@minstaff.vic.gov.au;
hsc@dhs.vic.gov.au;
kuruvilla.george@dhs.vic.gov.au;
benjaminmerhav@hotmail.com;
amy@uniteforlife.org;
sarinasvoice@aol.com
A proposed sample letter is available at
http://uniteforlife.org/rebeccaletter.htm
For additional information please see:
http://uniteforlife.org/help%20rebecca%20now.htm
To offer additional assistance, please use whatever
non-violent means are available to you to ensure
Rebecca's freedom and safety and achieve the cancellation of her Compulsory Treatment
Order (CTO) and release from the psychiatric doctors' so-called care. You can
write or call Amy Philo or one of the other contacts listed above if you require
further information.
Tomorrow could be too late. Please act today.
Sincerely,
Amy Philo
Founder, www.uniteforlife.org
Co-Founder, www.chaada.org
Camille Milke
Founder, www.copesfoundation.com
New Mexico State Director of the ICFDA (http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html)
Mother of a victim of psychiatric drug-induced suicide and grandmother to a now
motherless child
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(Online readers: Click here to see a list of contacts who are being sent a press
release. If you would like to contact them to follow up, please do so. The more
help we have, the better.)
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