Russia
Reports on particular cases continue to come from Russia where the worsening political climate appears to make an atmosphere in which local authorities feel able to again use psychiatry as a means of frightening. In modern Russia, the fact that a person is a human rights defender again means that the person risks receiving a psychiatric diagnosis.
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