News on the topic: Shatsikava
12.03.2008 Use of Punitive Psychiatry Continues: Aliaksandr Kruty Detained and Placed in Psychiatric Hospital
On 3 March Aliaksandr Kruty came to a polyclinic to get registered there. He was met by the policemen, who forcedly took him to the Navinki psychiatric hospital in Minsk.
12.12.2007 Entrepreneurs Sentenced to 7-15 Days of Jail
Several minutes before the trial a leader of entrepreneurs stated to Radio 'Racyja': ‘If the court sentences entrepreneurs to administrative arrest, the negotiations with the authorities which were appointed on 19 December, will not take place’.
23.10.2007 Krystsina Shatsikava to Sue Belarusian Television
Well-known opposition activist Krystsina Shatsikava is going to sue the Belarusian Television company. Besides that, she plans to complain about the principal of the school where her children go to, and the administration of the psychiatric hospital where she was kept during detention this spring.
28.08.2007 Do Mahiliou Medics Finally Get Punished for Detaining Shatsikava?
On 23 August the college board of Mahiliou regional court refused to bring a criminal case on the fact of kidnap of a public activist Krystsina Shatsikava and her illegal placement to a hospital. Two days later Shatsikava received a letter in which the head of Mahiliou regional department of health care Valery Malashka indirectly confessed that her rights had been violated by medics of Mahiliou mental hospital.
23.08.2007 Punitive Psychiatry Remains Unpunished
The college board of Mahiliou regional court with a deputy chair of the court Ihar Troshka at the head turned down an appeal of a public activist Krystsina Shatsikava against the verdict of Leninski district court of Mahiliou that had refused to abolish a ruling of the local prosecutor’s office against bringing a criminal case on the use of punitive psychiatry. The College Board did not give any explanations concerning its verdict.
04.08.2007 Minsk: Detained Activists Get Fined
On 2 August Leninski borough court of Minsk fined the youth activists Artur Dasanau, Yana Karpovich and Siarhei Palaukou 62 000 rubles (about 28 US dollars).
