 |  | | | Larisa Arap and human rights in Russia | 05 Sep 2007 | | |
The women who speak out against their rulers
After criticising the authorities and exposing flaws in the mental health system, Russian activist Larisa Arap found herself detained in a psychiatric hospital. Seeing echoes of the Soviet-era practice of using psychiatry as a tool of repression, human rights defenders secured her release. In the wake of this, and after President Putin's critics described the results of an investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya as “political fabrications”, Ritula's joined by Professor Margot Light and Moscow journalist Masha Gessing about the women who speak out against the Russian rulers. | |
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