Amnesty International has condemned a Russian court’s rejection of an appeal by a Yakut shaman against a decision to confine him to a psychiatric clinic as he campaigned to drive President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin.
RFE/RL: Russia urged to release anti-Putin shaman from ‘punitive psychiatric treatment’
A picture taken on August 20, 2010 shows a shaman of Tyva Republic performing during a shamanistic ritual ceremony at sacred site outside Kyzyl.
