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…
18 April 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook Beating your chest in righteous anger is always pleasant, but especially in time of war. It is precisely at such a time…
Week-ending 3 December 2021 Amnesty International has turned to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples regarding the situation faced by a Yakut shaman who is being held…
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…
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…
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…
This week our guest on the podcast is the journalist and human rights activist Viktor Davydov. Victor Davydov studied at Kuibyshev Technical University and then at the History Department of…
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…
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…
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…