Desperate Mother in Denmark Begs for Help: “Save My Son!”
Shield Update 2/19/2025 We have added contact information for individuals. Concerned individuals can now write. Scroll down to read under ‘Call to Action’ Shield Alert 1/21/2025 Free Artem: Sixteen-Year Old War Refugee Living in Denmark Institutionalized and Forcibly Drugged! On 1/20/2025, a U.S. federal holiday dedicated to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., MindFreedom…
Shield Alert: Free Joan Aufderheide from unlawful incarceration at an all-male forensic ward at Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center
Update: November 9, 2024 Joan Aufderheide says that her situation is improving. She has a court appointed attorney who is accumulating evidence for her discharge and a hearing has been scheduled for January 8, 2025. On her attorney’s advice, Joan asks Shield members to hold off taking any action on her behalf until the results…
Shield Alert: Free Kedrick Tucker from psychiatric imprisonment
Update: November 9, 2024 Kedrick’s treatment team is refusing to allow him to move up a level, which would give him more privileges. They claim this is because he sleeps too much, even though extreme lethargy is a side effect of the drugs he is being forced to take. Additionally, they still have not given…
Shield Alert: Juba Mahiou Discharged, but Still Subjected to Forced Drugging
August 2, 2024 Update Juba Mahiou, a young immigrant to Quebec, was detained for over six months at the Centre Intégré de Santé et de Services Sociaux de Laval (CISSS Laval) after a dispute with his family. Dr. Ali Jaber recieved court approval to forcibly drug Juba there, even as the judge acknowledged in his…
Shield Alert: Stop the forced drugging of Jill Kesti in her own home
August 2, 2024 Update Jill Kesti, a human rights activist in northern Michigan and founder of the Coalition to Stop Forced Drugging, is likewise facing home invasions by the Copper County Community Mental Health group (CCCMH). It has been a bit difficult to get timely info out about what Jill needs – in part because, fortunately, she was…
Shield Alert: Stop the Forced Drugging of Donna Jeans
Update: Donna Jeans is Still Being Forcibly Drugged Donna is being treated as an outpatient at Humber Primary Care. She is being forcibly drugged with Quietapaine. She would like to withdraw from the drug but is not being helped by her psychiatrist. Please send an email message to Humber Primary Care asking them to help…
Shield Alert: May, 2024 Update on David Italiano
May, 2024 Update David was finally found and was placed into a substandard apartment in a problematic area. His home was sold to pay his jailors so he couldn’t go back there. June 28, 2022 Update Still no independence for David Italiano. Update 6/12/2022: Our allies at Pennsylvania ADAPT and Roads to Freedom recently held…
Shield Alert: William Mahler Freed from Psychiatric Imprisonment in Massachusetts
We Won! May 29, 2024. It is a perhaps a stretch to say we won, but William was ordered freed after the hearing at which at least 15 MindFreedom Shield supporters of William attended by Zoom. Unlike most lawyers in these cases, starkly demonstrated by the ones before William’s, Tamara Barney did a terrific job…
Harmful legislation alert: Oppose Idaho bill allowing 12-year-olds to be electroshocked
Update: Revised Bill Passes April 8, 2024. The amended bill passed both the House and the Senate on April 3rd and the Governor signed it on April 8th. It is set to go into effect July 1st. Update: Not Dead Yet? March 28, 2024. There was a series of procedural moves resulting in an amendment…
Anonymous disabled Black man in Lahaina, Hawaii, USA asks for Shield members’ help
“D” is a visionary, community organizer and coach, living in Lahaina, Maui. He is also a MindFreedom International member and a disabled Black trauma survivor. In 2016, he was catastrophically injured in a car accident involving an Uber driver. The accident severed his spine, and despite several reconstructive surgeries, he was left with chronic pain,…
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Free Nikki Pons
FREE NIKKI PONS FROM LOCKUP IN MINNESOTA Nikki Pons is psychiatrically imprisoned and being forcibly drugged at Community Behavioral Health Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. According to Nikki, she was homeless in Fergus Falls and got into an altercation with a gang member who was trying to traffic her. The police intervened and she ended…
Updated: Shield Alert: End the harmful forced drugging and 6-year-long psychiatric incarceration of Lisa Espinosa
Please put an end to the harmful forced drugging and 6-year-long psychiatric incarceration of Lisa Espinosa Update – February 4, 2026: Lisa is still in the hospital in Hartford, CT. She is unable to get help from her public defender William Mastrogiovanni. We are going to send a message to the judge who is handling Lisa’s…
Adam Bruckshaw Shield Alert
HELP FREE ADAM BRUCKSHAW-LOVAINE FROM PSYCHIATRIC INCARCERATION AND FORCED DRUGGING IN ROCHDALE, ENGLAND UPDATE – Adam is still locked up at Birch Hill Hospital in Rochdale, England. He says things are getting worse with Dr. Faiz, his psychiatrist. The new phone number for the ward is 441706676118. UPDATE – November 24, 2025: Adam sent…
Shield Alert: Free Chris Bertonlino
Update, November 3, 2025: Mr. Bertonlino lost his court hearing. He continues to be psychiatrically confined at Community Bridges, Inc., and forcibly drugged. Please help Mr. Christopher Bertonlino by (1) contacting the key individuals at Community Bridges, Inc., responsible for his psychiatric incarceration and forced drugging and (2) attending his hearing on October 27 at…
Help Alicia Pointon Escape Psychiatric Imprisonment and Forced Drugging in the UK
Help Alicia Pointon Escape Psychiatric Imprisonment and Forced Drugging in the UK Update – November 22, 2025: Alicia is still locked up at Priory Hospital in Norwich, England. She has a hearing coming up which we may be able to attend. We’ll keep you posted. Alicia Pointon is locked up at Priory Hospital in Norwich,…
Shield Update: Shona Taunton Freed!
SHONA TAUNTON IS FREE, SAFE AT HOME 8/17/25 Shona Taunton has let us know she has been released from the hospital and is safe at home. She attributes her freedom partially to our effort on her behalf and is thankful for our support. Thanks so much to all of you who took the time and…
Shield Alert: Free Shannon Callahan
Free Shannon Callahan July 3, 2024 Update Shannon was so grateful for all the support at her hearing. Shannon is so beaten down, traumatized, and exhausted that she just wants all of this to be over. Her court-appointed lawyer took advantage of this and coerced Shannon into agreeing to the commitment. The lawyer told her…
Shield Alert Update: You Stopped David Russell from being forcibly electroshocked
6/15/25. David is in a less-restrictive “halfway house.” 2/21/25. David just let us know he is back at the Intensive Residential Treatment Services facility. He was put on a 72-hour hold for blowing up and saying he was suicidal due to the guardian/conservator situation. 2/19/25. The Account Hearing only lasted for around 5 minutes and…
Shield Alert: Free Kedrick Tucker from psychiatric imprisonment
Update: November 9, 2024 Kedrick’s treatment team is refusing to allow him to move up a level, which would give him more privileges. They claim this is because he sleeps too much, even though extreme lethargy is a side effect of the drugs he is being forced to take. Additionally, they still have not given…
Shield Alert: Juba Mahiou Discharged, but Still Subjected to Forced Drugging
August 2, 2024 Update Juba Mahiou, a young immigrant to Quebec, was detained for over six months at the Centre Intégré de Santé et de Services Sociaux de Laval (CISSS Laval) after a dispute with his family. Dr. Ali Jaber recieved court approval to forcibly drug Juba there, even as the judge acknowledged in his…