Russia on Monday denied a plea from a Siberian shaman for switch out a extreme psychiatric hospital, over three years after being confined for protesting towards President Vladimir Putin, his lawyer stated.
Alexander Gabyshev, 55, was despatched to a psychiatric hospital in January 2021 after repeatedly making an attempt to stroll from his native Yakutia in Russia’s far east to Moscow in a bid to “exorcise” Putin from workplace.
A Siberian courtroom refused to melt his therapy and switch him to a normal psychiatric hospital in May, a call Primorsky Regional Court upheld on Monday, his lawyer Alexei Pryanishnikov stated.
“We will appeal up to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, a commission of psychiatrists will hold another examination of Alexander Gabyshev in early October,” Pryanishnikov stated.
Russia has been criticised by rights teams for utilizing psychiatry and compelled confinement in psychological establishments as a punitive instrument towards dissent, a follow that was systemic within the Soviet Union.
Gabyshev’s involuntary confinement in psychiatric hospitals might quantity to a type of torture, Amnesty International has stated, whereas Russian rights group Memorial has recognised him as a political prisoner.
Source: www.anews.com.tr