Category Archives: RUSSIA

In a chilling revival of Soviet-era repression, Russian authorities are increasingly using forced psychiatric confinement to suppress political opposition, according to human rights groups and legal experts. Dissenters, activists, and independent journalists are being detained in psychiatric hospitals under dubious “mental disorder” diagnoses—a tactic eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Union’s notorious use of punitive psychiatryContinueContinue reading “Russia Revives Soviet-Era Tactics, Silencing Dissenters Through Forced Psychiatric Detention”