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WOMAN SUBJECTED TO FORCED PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT APPLIES TO ECTHR
12.09.2014 19:38 epress.am
Julieta Amarikyan, who was committed to one month of compulsory
psychiatric treatment and was subject to torture has applied, with
lawyer Tigran Hayrapetyan, to the European Court of Human Rights
(ECtHR). During a discussion today at Media Center Hayrapetyan said
that "Amarikyan's dignity was degraded and she was kept in difficult
conditions for one month without her own personal bed, without an
opportunity to shower during the summer month, and didn't have basic
hygiene supplies".
Amarikyan was transferred to a psychiatric facility based on a court
decision, which, however, was subsequently appealed to the Court of
Appeals and was annulled in the Court of First Instance.
After the annulment, Amarikyan was recognized to be mentally healthy
and was released from the psychiatric facility. Her lawyers applied to
the Special Investigation Service (SIS) to initiate a criminal case
with the demand of holding the judge, psychiatric facility staff,
and police accountable for their actions.
"The psychiatric system can be used as a punitive tool, even in
personal issues. Although we all remember that it has been used
for political purposes, for example, against Shant Harutyunyan. It's
important that Amarikyan displayed the will to defend her rights. It's
not like it was a unique incident. People outright think that they
have no way out," said Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office
director Artur Sakunts during the discussion.
Recall, that Julieta Amarikyan claims that she was taken to the
psychiatric facility because of a dispute with her brother regarding
her apartment.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/12/09/woman-subjected-to-forced-psychiatric-treatment-applies-to-ecthr.html
From: Baghdasarian
12.09.2014 19:38 epress.am
Julieta Amarikyan, who was committed to one month of compulsory
psychiatric treatment and was subject to torture has applied, with
lawyer Tigran Hayrapetyan, to the European Court of Human Rights
(ECtHR). During a discussion today at Media Center Hayrapetyan said
that "Amarikyan's dignity was degraded and she was kept in difficult
conditions for one month without her own personal bed, without an
opportunity to shower during the summer month, and didn't have basic
hygiene supplies".
Amarikyan was transferred to a psychiatric facility based on a court
decision, which, however, was subsequently appealed to the Court of
Appeals and was annulled in the Court of First Instance.
After the annulment, Amarikyan was recognized to be mentally healthy
and was released from the psychiatric facility. Her lawyers applied to
the Special Investigation Service (SIS) to initiate a criminal case
with the demand of holding the judge, psychiatric facility staff,
and police accountable for their actions.
"The psychiatric system can be used as a punitive tool, even in
personal issues. Although we all remember that it has been used
for political purposes, for example, against Shant Harutyunyan. It's
important that Amarikyan displayed the will to defend her rights. It's
not like it was a unique incident. People outright think that they
have no way out," said Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office
director Artur Sakunts during the discussion.
Recall, that Julieta Amarikyan claims that she was taken to the
psychiatric facility because of a dispute with her brother regarding
her apartment.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/12/09/woman-subjected-to-forced-psychiatric-treatment-applies-to-ecthr.html
From: Baghdasarian