"Alexander Gabyshev, a self-styled shaman from Russia’s Far
East, has been held in 
compulsory psychiatric treatment since 2019,
after he set out on a cross-country trek to Moscow with the goal of
peacefully expelling President Vladimir Putin from power and “restoring
democracy” to Russia by performing a shamanic ritual on Red Square.
On Monday, a court in Russia’s Far East ordered
to transfer him from a neuropsychiatric dispensary to a general
psychiatric hospital in Yakutsk, where he will undergo a “milder” form
of treatment.
Russia’s Memorial human rights organization has declared Gabyshev to be a political prisoner.
The Free Yakutia Foundation,
an anti-war movement in Gabyshev’s home republic of Sakha, has penned
this op-ed on how Gabyshev’s message was able to resonate with so many
ordinary Russians." MT
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