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'''Larisa Arap''' ({{lang-ru|Лариса Ивановна Арап}}; born in ]) is a ]n opposition ] who became a victim of illegal ] in the ] of ] and ], soon after publishing a story about mistreatment of patients in the same hospital where she was committed in July, 2007.<ref>]. We would like to have rights, Novaya Gaseta, 02.08.2007. in Russian: Александр Подрабинек Хотелось бы иметь права. | |||
'''Larisa Arap''' ({{langx|ru|Лари́са Ива́новна Ара́п}}; born in 1958) is a ] ] ] who became a ] of ] in the ] of ] and ], soon after publishing her article about mistreatment of patients in the same hospital where she was committed in July, 2007.<ref name="Хотелось бы">{{cite news|last=Подрабинек|first=Александр|title=Хотелось бы иметь права |trans-title=Wish I had rights |url=http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/58/16.html|access-date=4 May 2011|newspaper=Новая газета|date=2 August 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522041831/http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/58/16.html|archive-date=22 May 2011}}</ref><ref name="Activist">{{cite news|title=Activist held in psychiatric hospital|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jul/29/briefly-98482602/|access-date=2 May 2011|newspaper=]|date=29 July 2007}}</ref><ref name="Rodriguez">{{cite news|last=Rodriguez|first=Alex|title=Russian dissidents called mentally ill|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/08/07/russian-dissidents-called-mentally-ill/|access-date=2 May 2011|newspaper=]|date=August 12, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Blomfield">{{cite news|last=Blomfield|first=Adrian|title=Labelled mad for daring to criticise the Kremlin|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560192/Labelled-mad-for-daring-to-criticise-the-Kremlin.html|access-date=4 May 2011|newspaper=]|date=13 August 2007}}</ref><ref name="Gee">{{cite news|last=Gee|first=Alastair|title=Russian dissident 'forcibly detained in mental hospital|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-dissident-forcibly-detained-in-mental-hospital-459539.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611205335/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-dissident-forcibly-detained-in-mental-hospital-459539.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2008|access-date=4 May 2011|newspaper=]|date=30 July 2007}}</ref><ref name="Arnold">{{cite web|last=Arnold|first=Chloe|title=Russia: Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Health Facilities|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1077947.html|publisher=]|access-date=5 May 2011|date=2 August 2007}}</ref> She was released after 46 days of confinement, on August 20, 2007.<ref name="Russian Journalist Released">{{cite web|title=Russian Journalist Released From Psychiatric Clinic|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1078246.html|publisher=]|access-date=5 May 2011|date=20 August 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Russian clinic releases activist|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6955320.stm|publisher=]|access-date=5 May 2011|date=20 August 2007}}</ref> | |||
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/58/16.html</ref> | |||
<ref>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Activist held in psychiatric hospital | date=2007-07-29 | publisher=Washington Times | url =http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/FOREIGN/107290036/-1/RSS_WORLD?fromrss=1 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-10 | language = }}</ref><ref name="Rodriguez">, by Alex Rodriguez, ], August 12, 2007</ref><ref name="Mad"> By Adrian Blomfield, ] 13/08/2007</ref><ref name="detained">, by Alastair Gee, ] 30 July 2007</ref><ref> | |||
By Chloe Arnold, ], August 2, 2007</ref> She was released after 46 days of confinement, on August 20, 2007.<ref> "Psych Clinic Releases Russian Activist." AP wire service, in ], August 20, 2007. Retrieved August 20, 2007</ref> | |||
==Publication== | ==Publication== | ||
Arap’s story, entitled “Durdom” (“Madhouse”), was prepared by journalist Ilona Novikova and published on |
Arap’s story, entitled “Durdom” (“Madhouse”), was prepared by journalist Ilona Novikova and published on June 8, 2007 in the ] edition of the newspaper "Marsh Nesoglasnykh" (named after the "]"). The newspaper is a part of the ], an opposition coalition led by former world chess champion ]. Her story described crimes that allegedly took place at the ] psychiatric facility, including the following:<ref name="ilona">Ilona Novikova "Madhouse" ]: (''tr. "Ilona Novikova. "Madhouse": Larisa Arap's story about punitive medicine "'') ''www.kasparov.ru''</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513154348/http://russiaprofile.org/international/a1187270675.html |date=2014-05-13 }}, ''russiaprofile.org'', by Shaun Walker, August 16, 2007</ref><ref name="ordeal"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825125308/http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2883868.ece |date=2007-08-25 }} By Alastair Gee, ], 22 August 2007</ref> | ||
* Murder of mental patients in order to ] for ]. | * Murder of mental patients in order to ] for ]. | ||
* Forcing children to kiss and massage the legs of staff members at the hospital; children who refused were punished by ] 'therapy'. | * Forcing children to kiss and massage the legs of staff members at the hospital; children who refused were punished by ] 'therapy'. | ||
* ] and ] of people in the psychiatric wards. | * ] and ] of people in the psychiatric wards. | ||
* Keeping sane but 'inconvenient' people in the hospital, such as a woman who complained about the rape of her daughter, or another woman who was imprisoned in the Apatity ] to enable confiscation of her property. | * Keeping sane but 'inconvenient' people in the hospital, such as a woman who complained about the rape of her daughter, or another woman who was imprisoned in the Apatity ] to enable confiscation of her property. | ||
==Involuntary hospitalization== | ==Involuntary hospitalization== | ||
On |
On July 5, 2007, Arap went to a clinic in the ] of ] for the results of a ], which she had passed a month earlier to renew her ]. Doctor Olga Reshet <!--"Marina Rekish" was error, perhaps, mine. In publications, Olga Reshet. (Marina Rekish is doctor at at Apatity) !--> asked her whether she was the author of the "Madhouse" article. After receiving a confirmation from Arap that she was indeed the author, Dr. Reshet told her to wait outside and called ] (Russian police), who detained Arap until the arrival of a psychiatric ambulance.<ref>The psychiatrist Olga Reshet was the first doctor who initiated hospitalization of Mrs. L. Arap as confirmed by photocopies {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203133/http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=99636&pic=2c3cf41478ea894e48b1cfdb6948d598&page=0#top |date=2007-09-27 }} | ||
judgement / 18 07.2007- Murmansk / of the forced hospitalization. Signed "Reshet O" - as the representative of Severomorsk is the second after the signature of Judge Pasechnoy L. G.</ref> | judgement / 18 07.2007- Murmansk / of the forced hospitalization. Signed "Reshet O" - as the representative of Severomorsk is the second after the signature of Judge Pasechnoy L. G.</ref> | ||
Arap was injected with drugs that caused her tongue to swell, weakened her, and affected her vision and balance, according to her relatives. The detention was |
Arap was injected with drugs that caused her tongue to swell, weakened her, and affected her vision and balance, according to her relatives. The detention was illegal, since a decision of a judge authorizing her detention and treatment was issued subsequently, thirteen days later.<ref name="Хотелось бы"/><ref>]: {{cite web|url=http://www.youthyabloko.ru/modules/news/article.php?storyid%3D475 |title=В России : В стране возрождается карательная психиатрия. Молодежное яблоко, пресс-служба |trans-title=In Russia: Punitive psychiatry is being revived in the country. Youth yabloko, press service |date=2 August 2007 |access-date=2007-08-10 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007012018/http://www.youthyabloko.ru/modules/news/article.php?storyid=475 |archive-date=2007-10-07 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://theotherrussia.org/2007/08/08/larisa-arap-hunger-strike-continues/ |title=Larisa Arap Hunger Strike Continues. |access-date=2007-08-12 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081009/http://theotherrussia.org/2007/08/08/larisa-arap-hunger-strike-continues/ |archive-date=2007-09-28 }} | ||
]. We would like to have rights, Novaya Gaseta, 02.08.2007. in Russian: Александр Подрабинек Хотелось бы иметь права. | |||
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/58/16.html</ref><ref> ]: | |||
В России : В стране возрождается карательная психиатрия. Молодежное яблоко, пресс-служба, 02.08.2007 http://www.youthyabloko.ru/modules/news/article.php?storyid=475</ref><ref> | |||
Larisa Arap Hunger Strike Continues. http://theotherrussia.org/2007/08/08/larisa-arap-hunger-strike-continues/ | |||
</ref> | </ref> | ||
Using her mobile phone, Arap called her husband, Dmitri Tereshin, who came from ] to ] to help her, but she had already been moved to ]. The personnel of the facility refused to give her husband information regarding the reason for the hospitalization. That same evening, their daughter Taisiya came to the facility with her husband. The duty medic, Yulya Kopyia, told them that publication of the article "Madhouse" proved Arap's ]. Kopyia also said that Taisiya would be put into the psychiatric hospital, too, if she insisted on obtaining documents relating to Arap's hospitalization. Taisiya was later fired from her job in a local bank for "giving too many interviews about her mother." | Using her mobile phone, Arap called her husband, Dmitri Tereshin, who came from ] to ] to help her, but she had already been moved to ]. The personnel of the facility refused to give her husband information regarding the reason for the hospitalization. That same evening, their daughter Taisiya came to the facility with her husband. The duty medic, Yulya Kopyia, told them that publication of the article "Madhouse" proved Arap's ]. Kopyia also said that Taisiya would be put into the psychiatric hospital, too, if she insisted on obtaining documents relating to Arap's hospitalization. Taisiya was later fired from her job in a local bank for "giving too many interviews about her mother." | ||
Two days later, on |
Two days later, on July 7, 2007, Arap’s husband and daughter were allowed to visit her at the hospital. Arap claimed that she was severely beaten by the medical personnel and had bruises all over her body. She was tied to her bed and treated with unidentified ']s'. To protest, Arap went on a five-day ], and was eventually ]. | ||
==Court decision== | ==Court decision== | ||
On |
On July 18, 2007, a court in Murmansk sanctioned hospitalization of Arap. The court ignored requests from Arap's husband and daughter to release her. Relatives insisted that she was not a danger to herself or society. Svetlana Lukicheva, Arap's advocate, submitted the complaint to the Regional Court. Arap's husband forwarded the complaint to the regional court and regional health care institutions. | ||
==Commission== | ==Commission== | ||
On July 30, 2007, ] |
On July 30, 2007, ] chose a commission headed by ], president of the ], to investigate Arap's hospitalization. According to Yuri Savenko, the forceful hospitalization of Arap was completely unwarranted. At the same time he said that Arap "showed signs of mental instability" and that Arap admitted to being briefly hospitalized for ] and ] in 2004. Savenko explained his assessment of the situation as follows: "We studied medical documents and materials related to the case, and spent an hour and a half with her. The result was that we came to the conclusion that we're dealing with a person who is in fact ill. There are no 'politics' behind this. However, the politicization of our entire life is such that these patients become the first victims of the situation."<ref>{{cite web|title=Russia: is coercive psychology staging a comeback?|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1078204.html|publisher=]|date=17 August 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Активистку оппозиции оставили в психбольнице |trans-title=Opposition activist left in mental hospital |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_6940000/6940265.stm|publisher=]|date=10 August 2007}} "Она действительно больной человек, но не нуждавшийся в недобровольном стационарном лечении."</ref> He also said that "We're returning to this Soviet scenario ]," and added that "I call this not even punitive psychiatry but police psychiatry, when the main aim is to protect the state rather than to treat sick people."<ref>{{cite news|title=Your father's Soviet Union|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/08/17/your-fathers-soviet-union/|work=]|date=17 August 2007}}</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606083731/http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/03/grigory_pasko_you_cant_underst.htm |date=2008-06-06 }}, ], March 25, 2008</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606083736/http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/03/grigory_pasko_you_cant_underst_1.htm |date=2008-06-06 }}, ], March 26, 2008</ref> | ||
"Она действительно больной человек, но не нуждавшийся в недобровольном стационарном лечении."</ref>. He also said that "We're returning to this Soviet scenario ]," and added that "I call this not even punitive psychiatry but police psychiatry, when the main aim is to protect the state rather than to treat sick people."<ref> by ], August 17, 2007 </ref> | |||
==Release== | ==Release== | ||
Arap was released from the hospital on |
Arap was released from the hospital on August 20, but she was forced to sign an agreement to continue medical treatment, and wait for the next decision of the court. According to her, she was severely beaten and suffered spine damage in the hospital.<ref name=GraniRu> 21 August 2007 ''www.grani.ru'' accessed 13 March 2022</ref> She was told by doctors during her release that ''"Everything in the court is under our control. Doctors, police, and prosecutors are the same team. You have nowhere to go. ... We are letting you go, but you must think about your family."''<ref name=GraniRu/> | ||
The decision of court about the involuntary hospitalization of Arap remains in force. |
The decision of court about the involuntary hospitalization of Arap remains in force. | ||
After her release, Arap, who had previously suffered only from mild depression, described her ordeal: | After her release, Arap, who had previously suffered only from mild depression, described her ordeal: | ||
{{quote|"I feel very sick... I have no idea what they gave me but I have memory loss. I lost all sense of time and can’t remember much of what they did to me. They tied and beat me. It was torture. I saw other perfectly sane people inside." - Arap''<ref> |
{{quote|"I feel very sick... I have no idea what they gave me but I have memory loss. I lost all sense of time and can’t remember much of what they did to me. They tied and beat me. It was torture. I saw other perfectly sane people inside." - Arap''<ref>{{cite news|author=Franchetti, Mark|title=Putin brings back mental ward torment|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article70371.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004060736/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article70371.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2015|work=]|date=26 August 2007}}</ref>}} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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==External links== | |||
* - 'Writer forcibly hospitalized in Russia', an official statement by the ] (August 14, 2007) | |||
* - Photo copied documents in the case of Larisa Arap | |||
* - 'The triumph of punitive psychiatry in Murmansk', ], ''Ezhednevnyj Zhurnal'' (August 9, 2007) | |||
* , By David R. Sands, October 16, 2007, ] | |||
* By Nora Boustany, ], October 22, 2007 | |||
* - E. Vasilyev, a confidant of Larissa Arap | |||
* - 'Soviet Practice Of Institutionalizing Dissidents Revived', an official statement by the ], ''Bigotry Monitor'' (August 10, 2007) | |||
* - List of publications related to Larisa Arap | |||
:* - 'Slowgoing crime', Valeria Novodvorskaya | |||
* - Julija Latynina "access code" radio ''Echo of Moscow'' | |||
* - 'Labelled mad for daring to criticise the Kremlin', Adrian Blomfield, '']'' (August 14, 2007) | |||
* - 'Putin brings back mental ward torment', Mark Franchetti (August 26, 2007) | |||
* - Her story {{in lang|ru}} | |||
===Related=== | |||
* - Psychiatric abuse in the USSR (Historical survey, in Russian) | |||
* - Psychiatric abuse in the USSR (Historical survey, in English) | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:59, 4 November 2024
Russian opposition activistLarisa Arap (Russian: Лари́са Ива́новна Ара́п; born in 1958) is a Russian opposition activist who became a victim of involuntary commitment in the psychiatric facilities of Murmansk and Apatity, soon after publishing her article about mistreatment of patients in the same hospital where she was committed in July, 2007. She was released after 46 days of confinement, on August 20, 2007.
Publication
Arap’s story, entitled “Durdom” (“Madhouse”), was prepared by journalist Ilona Novikova and published on June 8, 2007 in the Murmansk edition of the newspaper "Marsh Nesoglasnykh" (named after the "Dissenters' March"). The newspaper is a part of the United Civil Front, an opposition coalition led by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Her story described crimes that allegedly took place at the Apatity psychiatric facility, including the following:
- Murder of mental patients in order to harvest their organs for transplantation.
- Forcing children to kiss and massage the legs of staff members at the hospital; children who refused were punished by electroshock 'therapy'.
- Rape and torture of people in the psychiatric wards.
- Keeping sane but 'inconvenient' people in the hospital, such as a woman who complained about the rape of her daughter, or another woman who was imprisoned in the Apatity psikhushka to enable confiscation of her property.
Involuntary hospitalization
On July 5, 2007, Arap went to a clinic in the closed city of Severomorsk for the results of a medical examination, which she had passed a month earlier to renew her driver’s license. Doctor Olga Reshet asked her whether she was the author of the "Madhouse" article. After receiving a confirmation from Arap that she was indeed the author, Dr. Reshet told her to wait outside and called militsiya (Russian police), who detained Arap until the arrival of a psychiatric ambulance.
Arap was injected with drugs that caused her tongue to swell, weakened her, and affected her vision and balance, according to her relatives. The detention was illegal, since a decision of a judge authorizing her detention and treatment was issued subsequently, thirteen days later.
Using her mobile phone, Arap called her husband, Dmitri Tereshin, who came from Murmansk to Severomorsk to help her, but she had already been moved to Murmansk. The personnel of the facility refused to give her husband information regarding the reason for the hospitalization. That same evening, their daughter Taisiya came to the facility with her husband. The duty medic, Yulya Kopyia, told them that publication of the article "Madhouse" proved Arap's insanity. Kopyia also said that Taisiya would be put into the psychiatric hospital, too, if she insisted on obtaining documents relating to Arap's hospitalization. Taisiya was later fired from her job in a local bank for "giving too many interviews about her mother."
Two days later, on July 7, 2007, Arap’s husband and daughter were allowed to visit her at the hospital. Arap claimed that she was severely beaten by the medical personnel and had bruises all over her body. She was tied to her bed and treated with unidentified 'sedatives'. To protest, Arap went on a five-day hunger strike, and was eventually fed by force.
Court decision
On July 18, 2007, a court in Murmansk sanctioned hospitalization of Arap. The court ignored requests from Arap's husband and daughter to release her. Relatives insisted that she was not a danger to herself or society. Svetlana Lukicheva, Arap's advocate, submitted the complaint to the Regional Court. Arap's husband forwarded the complaint to the regional court and regional health care institutions.
Commission
On July 30, 2007, Vladimir Lukin chose a commission headed by Yuri Savenko, president of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia, to investigate Arap's hospitalization. According to Yuri Savenko, the forceful hospitalization of Arap was completely unwarranted. At the same time he said that Arap "showed signs of mental instability" and that Arap admitted to being briefly hospitalized for stress and insomnia in 2004. Savenko explained his assessment of the situation as follows: "We studied medical documents and materials related to the case, and spent an hour and a half with her. The result was that we came to the conclusion that we're dealing with a person who is in fact ill. There are no 'politics' behind this. However, the politicization of our entire life is such that these patients become the first victims of the situation." He also said that "We're returning to this Soviet scenario when psychiatric institutions are used as punitive instruments," and added that "I call this not even punitive psychiatry but police psychiatry, when the main aim is to protect the state rather than to treat sick people."
Release
Arap was released from the hospital on August 20, but she was forced to sign an agreement to continue medical treatment, and wait for the next decision of the court. According to her, she was severely beaten and suffered spine damage in the hospital. She was told by doctors during her release that "Everything in the court is under our control. Doctors, police, and prosecutors are the same team. You have nowhere to go. ... We are letting you go, but you must think about your family."
The decision of court about the involuntary hospitalization of Arap remains in force.
After her release, Arap, who had previously suffered only from mild depression, described her ordeal:
"I feel very sick... I have no idea what they gave me but I have memory loss. I lost all sense of time and can’t remember much of what they did to me. They tied and beat me. It was torture. I saw other perfectly sane people inside." - Arap
See also
References
- ^ Подрабинек, Александр (2 August 2007). "Хотелось бы иметь права" [Wish I had rights]. Новая газета. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- "Activist held in psychiatric hospital". The Washington Times. 29 July 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- Rodriguez, Alex (August 12, 2007). "Russian dissidents called mentally ill". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- Blomfield, Adrian (13 August 2007). "Labelled mad for daring to criticise the Kremlin". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- Gee, Alastair (30 July 2007). "Russian dissident 'forcibly detained in mental hospital". The Independent. Archived from the original on June 11, 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- Arnold, Chloe (2 August 2007). "Russia: Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Health Facilities". Radio Free Europe. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- "Russian Journalist Released From Psychiatric Clinic". Radio Free Europe. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- "Russian clinic releases activist". BBC News. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- Ilona Novikova "Madhouse" Russian:Илона Новикова. "Дурдом": Рассказ Ларисы Арап о карательной медицине (tr. "Ilona Novikova. "Madhouse": Larisa Arap's story about punitive medicine ") www.kasparov.ru
- Madness or Manipulation? Case of Murmansk Activist Creates International Backlash Archived 2014-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, russiaprofile.org, by Shaun Walker, August 16, 2007
- Putin critic tells of her mental hospital ordeal Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine By Alastair Gee, The Independent, 22 August 2007
- The psychiatrist Olga Reshet was the first doctor who initiated hospitalization of Mrs. L. Arap as confirmed by photocopies Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine judgement / 18 07.2007- Murmansk / of the forced hospitalization. Signed "Reshet O" - as the representative of Severomorsk is the second after the signature of Judge Pasechnoy L. G.
- Russian: "В России : В стране возрождается карательная психиатрия. Молодежное яблоко, пресс-служба" [In Russia: Punitive psychiatry is being revived in the country. Youth yabloko, press service]. 2 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
- "Larisa Arap Hunger Strike Continues". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
- "Russia: is coercive psychology staging a comeback?". Radio Liberty. 17 August 2007.
- "Активистку оппозиции оставили в психбольнице" [Opposition activist left in mental hospital]. BBC Russian Service. 10 August 2007. "Она действительно больной человек, но не нуждавшийся в недобровольном стационарном лечении."
- "Your father's Soviet Union". The Chicago Tribune. 17 August 2007.
- An interview with prominent Russian psychiatrist Yuri Savenko - Part 1 Archived 2008-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, Grigory Pasko, March 25, 2008
- Grigory Pasko: You Can't Understand Russia with the Mind, Part 2 Archived 2008-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, Grigory Pasko, March 26, 2008
- ^ Arap's story of spinal damage 21 August 2007 www.grani.ru accessed 13 March 2022
- Franchetti, Mark (26 August 2007). "Putin brings back mental ward torment". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015.
External links
- CPJ.org - 'Writer forcibly hospitalized in Russia', an official statement by the Committee to Protect Journalists (August 14, 2007)
- E1.ru (Russian language) - Photo copied documents in the case of Larisa Arap
- EJ.ru (original publication, in Russian) - 'The triumph of punitive psychiatry in Murmansk', Alexandr Podrabinek, Ezhednevnyj Zhurnal (August 9, 2007)
- Activist tells about torture and captivity, By David R. Sands, October 16, 2007, The Washington Times
- Rights Activist Tells of Detention In Russian Psychiatric Institutions By Nora Boustany, Washington Post, October 22, 2007
- EVasiljeva.LiveJournal.com (Russian) - E. Vasilyev, a confidant of Larissa Arap
- FSUMonitor.com - 'Soviet Practice Of Institutionalizing Dissidents Revived', an official statement by the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Bigotry Monitor (August 10, 2007)
- Grani.ru (Russian) - List of publications related to Larisa Arap
- Grani.ru (Russian) - 'Slowgoing crime', Valeria Novodvorskaya
- Msk.ru (Russian) - Julija Latynina "access code" radio Echo of Moscow
- Telegraph.co.uk - 'Labelled mad for daring to criticise the Kremlin', Adrian Blomfield, The Daily Telegraph (August 14, 2007)
- Times.co.uk - 'Putin brings back mental ward torment', Mark Franchetti (August 26, 2007)
- Larisa Arap Unprovable - Her story (in Russian)
Related
- Agentura.ru - Psychiatric abuse in the USSR (Historical survey, in Russian)
- Advances in the History of Psychology - Psychiatric abuse in the USSR (Historical survey, in English)