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Kazakhstan: Psychiatric Detention of Activist Priest

(Berlin, May 28, 2026) - Kazakhstan authorities on May 25, 2026, forcibly transferred a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest, Yakov Vorontsov, to a psychiatric facility outside Almaty, Human Rights Watch said today. A Kazakhstan court on May 18 had ordered his transfer there from pretrial detention, where he had been held since February on dubious drug-related criminal charges. "Kazakhstan's record of politic

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