Punitive Psychiatry

James_Newman · Aug 14, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/13/wasylum113.xml

A needle sank into her arm. Over the coming weeks, as the treatment took its effect, Mrs Arap would become everything the doctors declared her to be: her head lolled to one side, her tongue hung out of her mouth and her face went slack.

"When she was brought out she was covered in bruises," said Taisia, her daughter. "She couldn't stand, could hardly speak and was drifting in and out of consciousness."

The practice of "punitive psychiatry", perfected by Nikita Khrushchev in the aftermath of Stalin's Great Terror as a more palatable way of dealing with political dissidents, was once thought to have been buried with the Soviet Union.

But Mrs Arap's ordeal has raised fears among Russia's browbeaten human rights community that the Kremlin is preparing to incarcerate a new generation of dissidents in asylums.
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This is what criticising the government will get you in Russia.

moondg · Aug 14, 2007

I am glad I do not live in Russia. I know some people I would like to send over there.:laugh: Just kidding.

JFox1 · Aug 14, 2007

raying: Looks like Vladimir Putin, former KGB agent, is turning back the clock. :tear:

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