South Africa: Dr. Shock must be brought to book
01.04.2010
Gender DynamiX has asked victims of Dr Aubrey Levin, well known during the apartheid era for using electric shock to “cure” homosexual soldiers, and recently arrested on charges indecently assaulting his male patients, to come forward in order to strengthen the case against him. Also known as Dr Shock, Levin is a psychiatrist who left South Africa for Canada in the 1990’s amidst charges of chemically castrating gay men as part of their therapy and had been identified by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) as having committed “gross human rights abuses.”