News on the topic: punitive medicine
06.09.2013 Ihar Pastnou doesn't trust Vitsebsk medics and asks to be transferred to Minsk
According to the Vitsebsk human rights defenders who have recently visited Ihar Pastnou in the regional center of psychiatry and narcology, he has already filed to applications for his transfer to the National Center of Psychical Health, but haven't received any answers so far.
04.09.2013 Marek Migalski applies to the European Commission concerning Ihar Pastnou's case
MEP Marek Migalski applied to the European Commission, as well as to the Minister of Health of Poland Bartosz Arljukowicz asking to intervene in the case of the Belarusian medic Ihar Pastnou.
03.09.2013 Vitsebsk human rights defenders intend to collect 50.000 signatures in support of Ihar Pastnou
This is already the third on-line petition in defense of Vitsebsk doctor Ihar Pastnou, who was appointed compulsory psychiatric treatment. Human rights defenders demand a repeated psychiatric examination of Mr. Pastnou.
03.09.2013 Joint statement by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” concerning the forced hospitalization of Ihar Pastnou
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center " Viasna" are concerned about the forced hospitalization of Ihar Pastnou.
29.08.2013 “Amnesty International” issued a statement on the involuntary psychiatric treatment of medic Ihar Pastnou
A psychiatrist working in Belarus, Igor Postnov, has been forcibly detained and treated in the hospital where he works following his outspoken criticism of the health care system in Vitebsk, a city in the north of the country.
28.08.2013 Medics started using punitive psychiatry towards Ihar Pastnou
The court of psychiatric treatment towards the former medic was sanctioned by the Vitsebsk District Court on 21 August. Though the court verdict hasn't come into force, the staff of the Vitsebsk psychiatric hospital have already started its implementation.
27.08.2013 Vitsebsk opposition activists campaign to protest forced psychiatric treatment of doctor Pastnou
Representatives of Vitsebsk pro-democratic forces have launched a campaign to address the Prosecutor of Vitsebsk region with an open letter concerning the decision of the District Court to apply forced psychiatric treatment towards doctor Ihar Pastnou.
23.08.2013 Pavel Sapielka: Forced psychiatry may become punitive instrument
The authorities may use forced mental treatment for fighting dissent. Such an opinion came from a former counsel, a human rights activist Pavel Sapielka as he commented for the charter97.org web-site on the forced treatment of a doctor Ihar Pastnou from Viciebsk in a mental hospital.
22.08.2013 Court orders compulsory treatment of Ihar Pastnou
According to the Law on the provision of mental health care, the duty of doctors is to explain to the patient his rights, including the right to legal and judicial assistance. However, the court of Vitsebsk district, which ruled yesterday to apply compulsory treatment to former doctor Ihar Pastnou, did not bring him to the courtroom, nor was the trial attended by a lawyer.
22.08.2013 Vitsebsk court conceals decision on compulsory treatment of Ihar Pastnou
The court of Vitsebsk district considered yesterday the possibility of forced psychiatric treatment of local doctor Ihar Pastnou, who publicly expressed his critical perception of health care in the region. As a result, the court's findings remain a mystery, but Ihar Pastnou still cannot be contacted. There is reason to believe that he has not been released from mental hospital.
19.08.2013 Vitsebsk doctor placed in psychiatric hospital over criticism of authorities
Ihar Pastnou, a psychiatrist in the regional psychiatric hospital who strongly criticized shortcomings in the health care system of Vitsebsk, became a patient of that same institution shortly after deputy head doctor for ideology said doctor Pastnou’s behavior was "unethical."
12.03.2012 Aliaksandr Kruty to be tried again on 19 March
Aliaksandr Kruty, the father of a victim of the 11 April blast in the Minsk metro, actively participated in the trial of the alleged perpetrators of the terrorist act, Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou, the both of whom were sentenced to death and are waiting to be executed.
06.02.2012 Aliaksandr Kruty states that his daughter still hasn't received compensation
Minsk citizen Aliaksandr Kruty, who is kept in the pre-trial prison in Valadarski Street, awaiting the direction for forced psychiatric treatment, imposed by a court verdict, sent a letter to the Homel-based activist of the coalition “Our Alternative” Kanstantsin Zhukouski.
06.01.2012 Aliaksandr Kruty waits to be transferred to Navinki psychiatric hospital to be “cured from conscience”
Kanstantsin Zhukouski, Home-based activist of the “Our Alternative” coalition, received a letter from Aliaksandr Kruty, father of a victim of the Minsk metro blast, kept in the pre-trial prison in Valadarski Street.
07.12.2011 Court prescribes forced medical treatment for Aliaksandr Kruty
The trial of the father of Inesa Krutaya, a victim of the 11 April blast in the Minsk metro, was closed. There were only a prosecutor, a judge, a secretary, Aliaksandr's lawyer and the victim – doctor Valiantsina Chupik. It was her who insisted on the closed regime.
