INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
report being subjected to humiliation, beatings and being injected with powerful antipsychotic drugs.The number of political activists
placed in forced psychiatric treatment in 2023 was five times higher than the average for 2021-2022, the independent investigative news
of psychiatrists.After the start of the war with Ukraine, Russia sent 86 people to forced psychiatric treatment, Agentstvo said in May,
Peace Prize-winning human rights watchdog Memorial says at least 49 people in Russia have been sent to forced psychiatric treatment in
politically motivated punishment.The Moscow Times takes a look at some of the most well-known cases of punitive psychiatry, all of whom have
treatment.The teenager from Moscow was charged over a Telegram post calling for a protest on the first anniversary of the invasion of
Through his lawyer, Lypkan said he was facing psychological and physical pressure while in pre-trial detention.He was transferred from a
pre-trial detention center to a psychiatric hospital about eight months later.Maria Semerenko, 38Maria Semerenko from the Moscow region was
in the early weeks of the invasion
Moscow denies that its army was behind the atrocities in Bucha and has accused Kyiv and its Western allies of staging the scenes.Andrey
Russian missile strike on a shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk that killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more.Andrey
autonomous district was sent to a psychiatric hospital for forced treatment last year after a Russian court declared him mentally
unfit.Vatria, a Muslim by faith, was arrested alongside two other local Muslims in 2020 on terrorism charges that human rights activists
the manufacture of explosive materials
The defendants claimed that the devices were planted on them.Memorial said that the case was fabricated and politically motivated.The case
