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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 62: Drugs, hunger strikes, and psychiatry

This week in Russia: there's some good news, and there's some bad news.

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Zarema Bagavutdinova. Source: OVD-Info.

This article is part of our partnership with OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia.

Russian anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov, now living outside Russia, has written a book on how criminal cases are fabricated in Russia — and it is accessible online! Dmitry was prosecuted in the Bolotnaya Square case, despite the fact he was not in Moscow during the unrest on 6 May 2012. Buchenkov was held on remand for more than a year before being convicted. He left Russia before sentence was pronounced.