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In the Independent Press Centre held a discussion of the law on compulsory treatment

Originally posted by i_voloshin at in the Independent Press Centre held a discussion of the law on compulsory treatment

February 9, the Independent Press Centre held a round Table PUBLIC HEARING OF THE DRAFT "on compulsory treatment of persons who committed crimes."

Andrei Babushkin (Chairman "For Civil Rights"):

"We have a law on compulsory treatment. I am worried that no one human rights organization, as well as Doctors working in this field, the development of the law were not allowed. In addition, mandatory treatment shall be served by judicial decree. But the law is not clear whether the Public Oversight Commission, exercising control over places of detention, to visit places of detention of persons subject to psychiatric treatment. Some hospitals allow representatives of PMCs, but Sychevsky or Kazan hospital POC members are not allowed under any views. Further, it so happens that a person has a disease, but he is not dangerous, but the hospital can not write it, because it has no shelter and in conditions of homelessness a person will relapse. The state has lost interest to these people. Suffer and the people themselves, other patients, forced to lie down in a crowded hospital and even the staff of institutions. We treat the definition of the court

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