APPEALS
COURT IN
KHANTY-MANSI RULES FORCED HOSPITALIZATION OF BELIEVER IN
PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC
ILLEGAL
Jehovah's
Witnesses
in Russia, 2 April 2020
On 5
March 2020 a
court of the Khanty-Mansi autonomous district Yugra overturned
the order of
Judge Tatiana Sliusareva of the Surgut city court sending
Timofei Zhukov for a
30-day psychiatric expert analysis in Ekaterinburg. The arrest
and the hospitalization
the believer already has gone through were illegal.
The
conduct of an
in-patient forensic psychiatric examination was ordered for
Timofei Zhukov by
the Surgut city court on 16 January 2020. The believer appealed
this order.
On 5
February 2020,
however, Timofei Zhukov was, essentially, kidnapped in
Khanty-Mansi and taken
off to an unknown destination. Later it was learned that he was
taken to the
Sverdlovsk oblast psychiatric hospital in Ekaterinburg.
On 19
February 2020,
upon the completion of the expert examination, Timofei Zhukov
left the hospital.
Whether the believer will request compensation for the illegal
actions of the
security forces is still unknown. (tr. by PDS, posted 2 April
2020)
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