Javier Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Javier: The news has been released by Associated press. It's really shocking that things like this should still happen. Chess players usually stay away from politics but this is not politics, this is human rights. A member of an opposition group led by the former chess champion Garry Kasparov was released Monday from a psychiatric clinic after being held against her will for 46 days, a spokeswoman for the group said. Larisa Arap, 48, a member of Kasparov's group in the northern port city of Murmansk, was forcibly hospitalized last month in what opposition activists said was revenge for exposing alleged abuse of children in a local psychiatric hospital. Her case was taken up by human rights defenders, who saw in it echoes of the Soviet-era practice of locking up dissidents in psychiatric hospitals. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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