🚨 UN human rights experts raise serious concerns over reports that Belarusian courts are using coercive psychiatric treatment to punish dissenters.
The oldest known person transferred for such treatment is aged 77.
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Belarus: Experts alarmed at reports of coercive psychiatric treatment as punishment for political dissent
GENEVA – Independent human rights experts* today raised serious concerns about an alleged practice of Belarusian criminal courts transferring accused persons to coercive psychiatric treatment in retaliation for their exercise of civil and political rights.“We have received reports about at least 33 individuals, including five women, transferred for coercive psychiatric treatment because they expressed dissent with the authorities since the beginning of the political crisis around the 2020 presidential elections,” the experts said.
