Vitebsk psychiatrist Narcologist Igor Postnov addressed an open letter to the director of the Republican Scientific Practical Center of Mental Health Alexander Startsev, asking him "personally look into the facts of the use of Belarusian punitive psychiatry." Text of a letter posted on the website freeregion.info.

As an example, cited the case Postnov Olesya Sadouskaya of Maladziechna, who was detained on the night of December 31, 2011 to January 1, 2012 and, according to human rights activists beaten by the police department Molodechno.

According Postnov, "they try to recognize that girl in a state of complete lack of memory" and submit to compulsory treatment, while Republican expertise found at Sadouskaya mild mood disorder. "Speaking as a medical specialist on the court, I easily reversed the decision, citing the definition of ICD-10 monograph of Professor Evstigneeva" - says the doctor-activist.

He stressed that, according to the court, June 26 Olesya Sadouskaya need to pass a second examination, in connection with which requests Postnov Startseva take it with documents in the case. According to him, Olesya Sadovskaya "has no serious psychopathology that is recognized in Russia."

According Postnov, "Olesya Sadouskaya history will be even louder." "If, however, she was sent for compulsory treatment, it is, as I will be a victim of punitive psychiatry Belarusian regime and the Belarusian psychiatry from this disgrace will be difficult to wash off. Even in the harsh years of the Stalin and Khrushchev repression Belarusian psychiatry mired massacre of facts dissidents "- said the doctor-activist.

Postnov said that Belarus will have to respond to the Committee on the Human Rights Council, which "took my case as a priority." In addition, the doctor told me that his support independent Psychiatric Association of Russia, with whom he now works with. "I have worked on several cases in which instead of protecting the use of psychiatry problems of patients. All of them will be presented to the World Organization of Psychiatry and supported by Russian psychiatrists who are members of the World Psychiatric Association," - wrote Postnov.

Recall that in 2013 more than a month Postnov was forced treatment in the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Center of Psychiatry. There he found himself after his next videovystupleniya the Internet, in which he expressed critical judgments about the state of medicine in Vitebsk, forced coding from alcoholism, and also stated that it intimidated forced psychiatric treatment. August 16 Postnova taken straight from work in a psychiatric hospital, and on September 20 was transferred to the day hospital. Then he was offered a job narcologist in the same clinic.

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