Putin critic sentenced to detention in psychiatric ward

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Putin critic sentenced to detention in psychiatric ward

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/putin-critic-sentenced-detention-psychiatric-ward-161721236.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3JAtXbBz0WQ5f8SjWm10Fg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-08T163031Z_1_CBRE99719UX00_RTROPTP_2_RUSSIA-PROTEST.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Kosenko sits inside defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow" align="left" title="Kosenko sits inside defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow" border="0" /></a>MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a critic of President Vladimir Putin confined to a psychiatric ward indefinitely over clashes with police at a protest, a ruling likened by rights activists to abuses of psychiatry during the Soviet era to jail dissidents. Mikhail Kosenko, who had undergone outpatient psychiatric treatment before his arrest, was among more than two dozen accused of rioting at a protest in Moscow on May 6, 2012, the eve of Putin's inauguration to a new six-year term. They are held up by the opposition as victims of a Kremlin crackdown on dissent. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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