Peter Reddaway and Robert van Voren on the call by Semyon Gluzman and Irina Pinchuk for the World Psychiatric Association to suspend the Russian Society of Psychiatrists. A response to Aleksandr Podrabinek

Peter Reddaway Robert van Voren 9 May 2022 by Peter Reddaway and Robert van Voren This article is a response to 'On a duplicitous appeal' by Aleksandr Podrabinek, published on…

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Legal Case of the Week: Aleksandr Gabyshev confined to a psychiatric hospital nearly 3,000 kilometers from his home

Week-ending 8 October 2021 On 4 October 2021 it became known that Yakut shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Novosibirsk, where he is detained and…

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Person of the Week: Aleksandr Gabyshev confined indefinitely to a psychiatric hospital.

Wee-ending 24 September 2021 On 23 September 2021 a court decision came into force indefinitely confining Siberian shaman, Aleksandr Gabyshev, to a psychiatric ward for 'intensive treatment' on the grounds…

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Quote for the Week. Amnesty International: “That is the second instance of Aleksandr Gabyshev facing punitive psychiatry.”

Week-ending 17 September 2021 "That is the second instance of Aleksandr Gabyshev facing punitive psychiatry, after he was arbitrarily placed in a psychiatric institution between 12 May and 22 July…

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Person of the Week: Aleksandr Gabyshev confined to psychiatric hospital

Week-ending 30 July 2021 On 26 July 2021 Yakutsk city court ruled that Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman who has been stopped several times by police as he walked to Moscow…

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Legal Case of the Week: Supreme Court of Yakutia upholds compulsory confinement of Aleksandr Gabyshev in a psychiatric hospital

Week-ending 12 March 2021 This week the Supreme Court of Yakutia upheld the compulsory confinement in a psychiatric clinic of Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman from Siberia who has tried on…

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Public appeal demanding the release of shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev

29 January 2021 Pictured: Elena Lukyanova, lawyer, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize, a professor of the Free University, is one of the signatories of the petition defending Aleksandr…

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