Heritage protector Natalia Shamina, detained during a protest against a bill stripping monuments of their protective status, claims she was subjected to violence in a psychiatric hospital where she was restrained and injected with medications.

Heritage protector Natalia Shamina, detained during a protest against a bill stripping monuments of their protective status, claims she was subjected to violence in a psychiatric hospital where she was restrained and injected with medications.

@ostorozhno_novosti 27 Jul 2026, 16:29

The court refused to hospitalize Natalia Shamino, head of the Novosibirsk branch of VOOPIiK, releasing her from a psychiatric clinic after her detention on July 24 during a picket in Moscow against a law allowing the removal of architectural monuments from state protection.

@ovdinfolive 27 Jul 2026, 14:34