What the record says

Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 8

Jurisdiction / date

Kazakhstan (Balkhash), 2009–2013

Mechanism

Criminal charge for "deliberately false complaint," then court-ordered psychiatric examination, "delusional disorder" diagnosis, repeated compulsory hospitalization

What is documented

Lawyer Zinaida Mukhortova and three colleagues complained to the President in Sept 2009 that MP Nigmatullin had interfered in a civil case; a criminal case followed; a July 2010 forensic exam diagnosed delusional disorder; she was confined over eight months from Jan 2011; after she filed a complaint against the hospital's head doctor (2012), she was taken from her home by four police officers and medical staff on 9 Aug 2013; the Balkhash court's detention order cited her "possibly querulant" and "litigious" activity; an independent 2012 assessment found her sane; released 1 Nov 2013

Finding or status

NGO and bar-association findings (HRW, 15 Aug 2013; HRW World Report 2014; ICJ statement, 3 Sep 2013; Lawyers for Lawyers; Open Dialogue Foundation)

Limits

Kazakh courts upheld the confinement (Karaganda regional court, 27 Sep 2013, in her absence); no domestic finding of retaliation

Label

VERIFIED (NGO); the closest documented instance anywhere of complaint → diagnosis → detention → complaint about detention → re-detention