Resorting to old tactics to silence critics, Russia has detained at least ten people, including three journalists, in psychiatric hospitals in the past year. Newsweek International reports that Larisa Arap, who was released August 21 from forced hospitalization after 46 days, was the most prominent but by no means the only critic to be confined by the state. Arap is active in the United Civil Front, an opposition group led by chess champion Garry Kasparov. But most likely it was a story critical of conditions in a psychiatric hospital that led to her lock up. Human rights activists, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, and MindFreedom, led active protests.
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