Rights Activist Tells of Detention In Russian Psychiatric Institutions
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It was just an errand, one more stop to get through the red tape, said Larissa Arap.
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Terms used by NHS staff such as "bed-blockers" are demeaning to those they treat, the patients' tsar says.
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A lawyer for a former Yukos Oil Co. executive who lies gravely ill with AIDS in a prison hospital pleaded with Russian authorities Thursday to move her client to a clinic for treatment.
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Two international rights organizations appealed to President Vladimir Putin to order the release of eight relatives of a Chechen rebel leader, who were allegedly abducted last month by security forces.
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The head of a New York-based human rights group accused Russia on Wednesday of "bureaucratic harassment" of civil groups critical of the Kremlin after he was denied a visa to travel to Moscow.
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BESLAN, Russia  - A prominent doctor negotiated on  Thursday with gunmen holding hundreds of children, parents and  teachers for a second day under threat of death in a school  near Russia's rebel Chechnya region.
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Doctors at Guantanamo Bay&#39;s holding facility say some of the detainees are being treated for various mental disorders. detainees of Camp Delta were suffering from mental disorders, with half of that figure requiring medication.
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Some two-thirds of Russia's jail inmates suffer from mental illnesses, serious diseases from AIDS to tuberculosis and syphilis, or alcohol and drug addictions, a top justice ministry official says.
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Family detention centers for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States are like prisons, where residents face harsh discipline and lack adequate health care, two advocacy groups said on Thursday.
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A Czech charity worker was detained in Chechnya Thursday on fraud charges, local officials said.
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A man wanted in several countries for allegedly running an international fraud operation is detained in Russia.
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A Chinese human rights activist who worked as a researcher for the New York Times has been detained on charges of leaking state secrets, said his lawyer on Friday.
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A jailed Chinese human rights activist has been beaten by other prisoners, Amnesty International says.
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The Austrian teen who survived 8 1/2 years of captivity in an underground cell is exhausted after giving a flurry of interviews about her ordeal and needs up to 10 days of rest, a psychiatrist treating her said ...
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A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China was given a 14-year prison sentence Wednesday in a trial that rights advocates denounced as part of a campaign of intimidation against scholars by Russia's resurgent KGB successor agency.
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DUBNA, Russia -- On March 23, police and emergency medical personnel stormed Marina Trutko's home,  breaking down her apartment door and quickly subduing her with an injection of  haloperidol, a powerful tranquilizer. One policeman put her 78-year-old mother, Valentina, in a storage closet while...
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By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US of using psychological and physical pressure to interrogate prisoners at