Free Hasit Khagram

To:  Minster of the Attorney General

FREEDOM FOR HASIT!!!!!

Hasit Khagram is a 35-year-old high-functioning autistic man and since 2000 has been
in the care of the Office of Public Guardian and Trustee. The OPGT forcibly
removed Hasit from his home and took him to a psychiatric ward. Where he was
kept in a small cell in terrifying isolation and subjected to the most
subhuman treatment.

http://www.ont-autism.uoguelph.ca/autnewsoct21.shtml

His requests to let him go home were ignored; his family was not allowed to
comfort him. Basically he was denied every one of the most basic human
rights as written in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He was
mechanically, physically and chemically restrained, injected with the most
dangerous psychiatric drugs.

From there he was placed in a Plexiglas prison (Read Globe and Mail article,
'His world is a Plexiglas world' written by Margaret Philp, Saturday, June
2, 2001) that was built in one of the Bethesda Group Homes and kept in
similar subhuman condition. In that situation Hasit has been physically and
emotionally abused. As the drugs are increased and the abuse continues
Hasit, in distress, self-abuses and bangs his head, at one point, staff
counted 160 times. Hasit is not allowed outdoors, to practice his religion
or take part in family events. On his birthday his mother fed him
from under a Plexiglas door.

His Member of Parliament, Peter Kormos (XXXXX) twice has intervened trying
to gain his freedom, once in 2001 and last one was April 2005. Hasit has
been in the media many times and the last one was on CH TV Hamilton (XXXXX).

Five years of this barbaric treatment is an embarrassment to all Canadians
and has to stop. Phone, fax, write, email your own MP asking for his
immediate release and to be returned to his family before Hasit dies. Demand
that it never again should be allowed this situation to be repeated.

Sign this petition to inform Attorney General Michael Bryant that you are
appalled that this barbaric treatment inflicted to an autistic is allowed to
happen in a country proud of its history of respect for all human lives,
more so of a defenseless, vulnerable autistic.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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