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From: Nigel Gray [mailto:[FYI request #12827 email]] 
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2020 12:54 PM 
To: D Clark (MIN) <[email address]> 
Subject: Official Information request - Number of ECT Devices in New 
Zealand hospitals or care facilities. 
 
Dear David Clark, 
                           Given that Electroconsulsive Treatment has been 
used as a method of torture historically in New Zealand, can you please 
inform me of the precise number of these devices in NZ hospitals in present 
time? 
                           Given that a senior psychiatrist. Dr Selwyn 
Leeks, thoroughly trained and qualified by NZ Govt standards. used one of 
these devices to torture the genitalia of young boys, and that use of this 
device has also been declared and categorized as a form of torture, on what 
evidence (not basis but evidence and testing) is it continued as "therapy" 
in New Zealand? 
 
Yours faithfully, 
 
Nigel Gray 

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