Since the beginning of the war, political prisoners have increasingly been sent for forced treatment. Has the Soviet system of punitive psychiatry returned? . Meduza spoke with the authors of the report about these practices. Since 2022, at least 84 (!) political prisoners have encountered them

Since 2022, at least 84 Russian political prisoners have been sent for compulsory treatment to psychiatric hospitals, OVD-Info has calculated (this measure in Russia is also applied to those convicted under other articles). Employees of the APUS human rights project spent two years communicating with prisoners in psychiatric hospitals, lawyers, psychiatrists, former employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, journalists and human rights activists. In the report “You Can’t Get Out of Here,” they described how Soviet practices of punitive psychiatry are used today.