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Today in Bălți, Moldova, a psychiatrist was found guilty of several counts of rape that he committed during the course of a decade against 16 women under his care in a 400-bed social care institution.
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Russia has today accepted responsibility for inhuman and degrading treatment against MDAC client Mr. Rafael Usmanov who was detained at a secure psychiatric facility in St Petersburg for almost a decade.
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Today, the European Court of Human Rights found that 55-year-old Jaroslav Červenka from the Czech Republic was deceived and wrongfully held in a social care institution for eight months in a judgment that could have ramifications for 28,000 people with disabilities in the country.
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Yesterday a man called Imdad Ali, a former electrician in Pakistan, was due to be executed. According to the NGO Reprieve, he has a “mental illness”, and thanks to their campaigning, the authorities have temporarily delayed his hanging. He has an appeal hearing on September 27th.
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