Khanty-Mansiysk Court of Appeal Finds Unlawful Hospitalization of a Believer in a Psychiatric Clinic

On March 5, 2020, the Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra overturned the decision of the judge of the Surgut City Court Tatyana Slyusareva to send Timofey Zhukov for a 30-day psychiatric examination in Yekaterinburg. The detention and hospitalization of the believer were illegal.

On January 16, 2020, the Surgut City Court appointed an inpatient forensic psychiatric examination of Timofey Zhukov. The believer appealed against this decision.

On February 5, 2020, however, Timofey Zhukov was, in fact, abducted in Khanty-Mansiysk and taken away in an unknown direction. Later it became known that he was taken to the Sverdlovsk Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Yekaterinburg.

On February 19, 2020, upon completion of the examination, Timofey Zhukov left the hospital. Whether the believer will demand compensation for the illegal actions of the security forces is not yet known.