Eur Psychiatry. 1998;13 Suppl 3:101s-6s. doi: 10.1016/S0924-9338(98)80040-0.
The European Convention of Human Rights recognises a certain number of rights and freedoms for persons within States' jurisdiction. For those confined in psychiatric hospitals, this legal protection concerns first of all the lawfulness of deprivation of liberty, which must conform to the conditions laid down by the Convention as interpreted by the case-law of the Convention organs (the Commission and Court of Human Rights). The Convention also guarantees to person deprived of their liberty further rights: the right to information, the right to appear before a court, the right to compensation and also the right to the respect of privacy and correspondence.
《欧洲人权公约》承认在国家管辖范围内的个人享有一定数量的权利和自由。对于那些被限制在精神病院的人来说，这种法律保护首先涉及剥夺自由的合法性，这必须符合公约机构（委员会和人权法院）判例法所解释的公约规定的条件。该公约还保障被剥夺自由的人享有进一步的权利：知情权、出庭权、赔偿权以及隐私权和通信权。
