As it became known, at the end of May the October district court judge Vitebsk Tatiana Zhuravkova ordered the cessation of compulsory measures of security and treatment in respect of human rights activist Valery Misnikau Vitebsk. This court decision rights activist sought more than six years.
Harassment Valeria Misnikau with forced psychiatric treatment began in September 2007. Then the court order the October district of Vitebsk human rights activist was taken coercive measures of security and treatment in relation to the commission, in a state of insanity, socially dangerous acts under Art. 269 ??(insulting a public official), Part 2 of Art. 377 (Theft, destruction, damage or concealment of documents, stamps, seals, forms theft). Zhuravkova judge in a closed court session considered a proven fact that Misnikau publicly insulted prosecutors and stole from the building of the regional prosecutor's office of its materials of the criminal case.
For treatment Misnikau was sent to KM "Braslau Regional Psychiatric Hospital", which is in the village Slobidka Braslau district in Vitebsk region, where he spent more than seven months. Under pressure from the World Psychiatric Association (Switzerland) in May 2008, the administration of a mental hospital appealed to the court to soften the terms of treatment - finding a substitute in a closed mental hospital for involuntary outpatient supervision and treatment by a psychiatrist in the community. The petition was granted and up to April 2014 Valery Misnikau met monthly with the attending psychiatrist.
At each meeting with human rights activist Dr. stated that he has no need for observation and treatment of psychiatric illness, as feels healthy. He strongly demanded from the leadership of KM "Vitebsk Regional Clinical Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction" decide on the termination of forced measures of safety and treatment.
But after six years of humiliation commission of doctors, it was found that Misnikau mental condition has improved and come a change in the nature of the disease, in which eliminated the need for coercive measures of security and treatment in the form of outpatient care. Commission Clinical Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction, however, felt that the human rights activist has yet to leave under medical observation.
As a result, the court there was nothing left but to accept the decision of the medical commission and order the termination against Valery Misnikau outpatient care and psychiatric treatment.
