INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least 49 Russian citizens are currently being held in mental hospitals as a form of punishment against opposition and other activists,
the human rights group Memorialsaid Thursday
marking World Mental Health Day.Political prisoners subjected to punitive psychiatry describe humiliating treatment, including beatings and
notes often amounts to indefinite confinement.Yakutian shamanAlexander Gabyshev, who was arrested five and a half years ago on his singular
the longest: three years and eight months.During the Soviet period, punitive psychiatry was so widespread that one-fourth of dissidents
