Larisa Arap

Larissa Arap Ivanovna (Russian Лариса Ивановна Арап, born 1958 ) is a Russian journalist and human rights activist. Arap was known among other things, their reports about the abuse of psychiatric institutions in Russia, which meant that she was subjected to coercive treatment itself.

Imprisonment

On 5 July 2007 Larissa Arap visited the clinic of the district in Severomorsk because they needed a document for her driver's license. A doctor who recognized the author of the critical article in the visitor, immediately alerted the militia. With violence Larissa Arap was taken to the psychiatric hospital.

On July 24, Larissa Arap was transferred to the psychiatric hospital in the neighboring town of Apatity Murmansk Oblast. This clinic, which addresses difficult mentally ill is known to only a few patients are ever fired. Meanwhile, sought supporters of the United Civil Front in Murmansk, to create an independent commission to investigate the case to the Arap. International organizations intervened. The end of August, the journalist was released from the psychiatric ward.