We, the Jury, would like to give notice that we do not see this occasion as a forum or debate on the state (lage) of psychiatrry but instead as a Tribunal whereat psychiatry is brought to justice for crimes against humanity. Crimes we have ourselves witnessed and even been subjected to. We frame the charges upon the following grounds.

This is the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights, the most basic of which is freedom from fear, including fear of arbitrary incarceration, torture and arbitrary killing. We charge psychiatry based upon coercion and forced treatment with arbitrary incarceration and various tortures including electroshock, lobotomy or psychosurgery, the bondage of four point restraint, forced drugging, the divestment of human dignity and status through labeling and stigma and frequent lifetime incapacity and disability.

Coercive psychiatry habitually and continuously violates civil and human rights through its denial of due process in depriving persons of liberty of person through arrest and imprisonment and further violating bodily integrity through forced injection, restraint, and electrical tortures, its victims even denied access to the records of their experience. Under the pretense of medicine, psychiatry has legaly instituted a subhuman category of "mental patient", a group demoted beneath human recognition to whom they have historically and consistently denied every human right in both democratic and totalitarian societies; under the Nazi eugenic policy even deliberately and systematically subjecting them to mass murder through gassing in this very city of Berlin.

Functioning as an arm of the state and with state powers, psychiatry has created a category of subhuman from whom every protection and right is withdrawn. We assert the full humanity of those so stigmatized and bring the charge of inhumanity against psychiatry both for its acts and for its demeaning ideology. Crimes against the category of persons nominated "mental patients" and heretofore dismissed as irrational and without judgement or intellect will henceforth be considered crimes against humaniy for which both the individual psychiatrist and the institution of psychiatry itself, abrogating state sanction and police powers, will be held responsible.

To this end non governmental organizations will be formed to present these claims to the United Nations and to charge psychiatry and psychiatrists with criminal instances and evidence of torture, false imprisonment and forced drugging both to individuals and to the class of persons so stigmatized, the actions of psychiatry and its system of social control consisting in themselves of crimes against humanity.