A court in Far East Russia has actually rejected a demand to move anti-Putin shaman Alexander Gabyshev from a high-security psychiatric facility to a basic healthcare facility for the 3rd time in two years, his lawyersaid Friday.The Ussuriysky District Court in the Primorye area made the judgment after a higher court in Februaryoverturned its December decision togrant the preliminary transfer request, according to lawyer Alexei Pryanishnikov.Gabyshev, 56, was arrested in 2019, months after setting off by foot from his native republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to Moscow to exorcize Russian President Vladimir Putin.He has invested the majority of the previous six years in psychiatric medical facilities, where Pryanishnikov said he has actually gone through deadly treatments.Pryanishnikov has actually previouslysaid that independent medical professionals vouched for Gabyshevs mental peace of mind and urged his transfer, only to be disregarded by judges.The court in Ussuriyskdenied requests to move Gabyshev in December 2023 and May 2024.
Amnesty International and the Russian human rights group Memorialrecognize Gabyshev as a political detainee, with the former saying he has been made an enemy of the state solely for voicing his dislike of Putin.Committing political dissenters to psychiatric hospitals was a practice referred to as punitive psychiatry in the days of the Soviet Union.
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