Update on Restraint Petition: 身体拘束について活動は続きています； Activities relating to the restraint petition are ongoing. Here are the latest: 1) Next Saturday, 18 November, there will be a meeting in Osaka at the Psychiatric Care Human Rights Center. A memorial lecture will be given by Professor Hasegawa entitled “Considering Human Dignity and Compulsory Hospitalization”. 日本語：11/18 NPO大阪精神医療人権センターの「人間の尊厳」から「強制入院」を考える集会リレートークに長谷川利夫代表 ２０１７年１１月１８日（土）大阪精神医療人権センター設立３２周年 記念講演会　「人間の尊厳」から「強制入院」を考える ２０１７年１１月１８日（土）１３：３０～１６：３０（受付開始１３:００）エルおおさか南館５階　南ホール 詳しい事はこちらです：https://www.norestraint.org/ 2) Japan will be reviewed on 14 November in Geneva by The Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which reviews the human rights records of all UN Member States, and is handled under the auspices of the Human Rights Council. We hope that the report includes concerns about psychiatric care and the treatment of people with disabilities that were brought up in the submission that the Japan National Group of Mentally Disabled People presented two weeks ago. There is a report on the of UPR pre session on the International Disability Alliance website http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/DPOsUPRpresessionOct2017 3) NHK has made the entire text of its broadcast relating to Kelly’s case available on this website: http://www.nhk.or.jp/heart-net/tv/summary/program/?id=43709 4) Professor Hasegawa organized a symposium on restraints in psychiatric hospitals at an academic conference in Nagano Prefecture that was held on 3 November and drew over 100 people. 5) On Oct. 28 at Ebara Cultural Centre in Shinagawa, Tokyo, there was a meeting discussing the question of whether restraints are necessary. Professor Hasegawa, House or Councillors member Kawada Ryuuhei, and Ken Udagawa jointly ran the discussion. 10/28 第44回こんぼ亭「身体拘束は必要ですか？」 身体拘束は人が人をしばることです。医療者は時にこれを「抑制」と呼びます。身体拘束は本当に必要なのか、共に考えましょう。 1/18 NPO大阪精神医療人権センターの「人間の尊厳」から「強制入院」を考える集会リレートークに長谷川利夫代表