Dissidents’ aid plea
NZPA-Reuter Moscow
A dissident group investigating the alleged abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union has appealed to an international conference of psychiatrists for help in freeing one of its members arrested last week.
The self-styled Committee to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes said it had sent a tele-
gram calling on the 4000 delegates at the sixth world psychiatry conference in Honolulu to defend a group member, Felix Serebrov, aged 47, who was arrested “for exposing the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.”
According to his wife, Mr Serebrov was arrested on August 22 on a charge of using forged documents. In an open letter to the Honolulu delegates written
before his arrest and now circulating among Moscow dissidents, the committee alleged that psychiatry was being used in the Soviet Union “as an instrument for suppressing civil rights.” The letter was signed by 35 supporters including the Nobel peace prize-winner, Andrei Sakharov, and a former major-general, Pyotr Grigorenko, who was himself once interned in a mental hospital.
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