Lawyer: Involuntary detainees are effectively prevented from complaining about deprivation of liberty

Patients must wait 246 days to have a complaint about a deprivation of liberty processed. This is against the constitution and a violation of human rights, says a lawyer and the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

If a patient is forcibly admitted or forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward, the patient has the right to complain about the deprivation of liberty.

It is a right that is guaranteed in the Constitution and appears in the European Convention on Human Rights.