•Mental health laws based on incapacity as well as quasi-criminal “dangerousness” and “public health” standards
•Neither of them valid under Convention
–“Dangerousness” falls to non-discrimination
–“Public health” justification for MH coercion amounts to systemic discrimination regarding free and informed consent
•based on biological classification of human beings according to their behavior, and use of behavior control
methods that violate
prohibition against torture