Georgia
Georgia creates unified mental health database, sparking fears of exploitation
The government justified the bill on the grounds of public safety, a reasoning that critics have sharply disagreed with.
mental health
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Georgia’s EU U-turn
Opinion | Georgia’s new mental health registry is a tool for repression
The new legislation to create a mental health database shows the state is reverting to old mechanisms of control deeply rooted in the Soviet past.
Georgia’s EU U-turn
How political psychiatry is finding a new life in Georgian propaganda
The Soviet Union’s toxic legacy of conflating dissent with mental ‘instability’ is remerging in the government’s attitudes towards protesters.
Azerbaijan
Mental health of detained OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov in decline
Bahruz Samadov has already tried to commit suicide twice while in detention.
Azerbaijan
Top Baku psychiatrist dismissed after declaring teenager ‘not mentally ill’
The head doctor of Baku’s main psychiatric hospital has been dismissed from his post, after defending a teenager who had been labelled mentally ill for posting a video of poor conditions in an orphanage. On Wednesday, Aghahasan Rasulov, the chief doctor of Baku’s Republic Psychiatric Hospital No. 1, was dismissed from his post by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Health, reportedly on grounds of age. Orkhan Jafarov, formerly the general director of the Republic Centre of Narcology, was appointed in hi
Azerbaijan
Leak targets prominent Azerbaijani feminist in run-up to Women’s Day
The private Facebook conversations of a prominent Azerbaijani women’s rights activist have been published online less than two weeks before International Women’s Day. Recordings of conversations between Gulnara Mehdiyeva and a friend were first published on a Facebook page with over 60,000 followers. In a 7-minute video report on the page, private voice messages sent by Mehdiyeva detail her distress over an abusive relationship. Mehdiyeva speaks of having an emotional breakdown and accompany
Children’s Rights
Voice | ‘Every afternoon I came home from school broken’
Narek, 29, from Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, describes how he was tormented at school, while teachers often protected the abusers. ‘In fifth grade, a maths teacher began being unnecessarily hostile towards me. In almost every lesson she gave me the lowest marks. As a result, I failed the year badly. I still hate maths.’ ‘I repeated the year but was forced to move to another class.’ ‘Some tough guys there took an immediate dislike to me. No matter what I did, no matter
