Prisoner With Schizophrenia Was Placed in Hospital
June 25, 2010
As a result of legal assistance of the Human Rights Center the convicted person, citizen of Ukraine Aleksandre Ch., who has schizophrenia was placed in the corresponding medical center.
The European Court of Human Rights requested to place the prisoner in the hospital before June 24 after the Human Rights Center petitioned to the court.
On June 25, the representatives of the Human Rights Center stated at the press-conference that on the previous day Aleksandre Ch. was placed in Gldani mental hospital after he spent 1 year and 8 months in the Rustavi prison of general regime.
The Human Rights Center assisted many people with mental problems in the framework of the project “Legal Aid for Mentally Disabled People in Georgia”.
The project coordinator Olga Kalina stated at the press-conference that Aleskandre Ch, despite the conclusion of the European Commission and alternative expertise which confirmed the psychiatric problem of the person, spent one year and 8 months in the prison. He was moved to the mental hospital only after the European Court took up the case.
Aleksandre Ch. is one of those people who were provided with legal aid within the project. He is citizen of Ukraine and is convicted for the murder of his mother. The court sentenced him to 10-year-mprisonment.
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