(Russia) Court orders online journalist’s release from psychiatric hospital

[demoleft]

Source: Reporters Sans Frontières

Reporters Without Borders voiced relief today at a decision by a court in Rybinsk (400 km north of Moscow) to release journalist Andrei Novikov. The court ruled at the end of a hearing this morning that there are no grounds for continuing to keep him in the psychiatric hospital where he has been held against his will since 14 February.

“Novikov has been the victim of practices contrary to the rule of law,” Reporters Without Borders said. “It seems that Russia’s special services and psychiatrists are still empowered to take charge of anyone whose words or actions stray from the Kremlin line. The use of punitive confinement is very dissuasive for all those who might be tempted to express their disagreement with the authorities.”



Read more: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24655

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no comment but relief if confirmed.

[JBoy]

1. Somewhere, a neocon is reading this story

and thinking about how to turn Gitmo into one of these psychiatric hospitals.