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Mikhail Kosenko’s protest case and compulsory treatment

Mikhail Kosenko, a Bolotnaya Square defendant with a 12-year outpatient history, had his case severed from the others because investigators sought compulsory psychiatric treatment; a Soviet-era dissident testified he had not fought police; Memorial's Orlov called it a…

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Account 1

Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 16

Jurisdiction / date
Moscow, May 2012 protest; trial 2013
Channel
6-reverse
Mechanism
LONG-COMMITMENT (compulsory treatment)
What is documented
Mikhail Kosenko, a Bolotnaya Square defendant with a 12-year outpatient history, had his case severed from the others because investigators sought compulsory psychiatric treatment; a Soviet-era dissident testified he had not fought police; Memorial's Orlov called it a political trial
Finding or status
Court-ordered compulsory treatment; condemned by Memorial and Amnesty (Wikipedia summary with Yaffa and press citations)
Label
VERIFIED (secondary); predates the 2016 start of the Russia rows — the register's Russian resurgence should now begin in 2013
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Account 2

Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 17

Speech act
Protest attendance
Psychiatric act
Case severed for compulsory treatment
Interval
Weeks (investigative stage)
Who initiated
Investigators
Outcome label
COURT ORDER
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Reference and provenance

2012-RU-BOLOTNAYA-KOSENKO

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