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The Chinese crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement is focusing new attention on Beijing's practice of imprisoning dissenters in psychiatric hospitals.

China's crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement is focusing new attention on Beijing's practice of imprisoning dissenters in psychiatric hospitals.

Mr. Andropov himself helped crush the 1956 revolt in Hungary, ran the agency during the 1968 suppression of the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia, and popularized the Soviet practice of imprisoning dissidents in psychiatric hospitals.

It is good to irritate officials, said Lyudmila Alexeyeva, chairwoman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, who fought against the Soviet practice of imprisoning and committing political dissenters to insane asylums.

Fateful events also hung over the Toledo program, which smartly paired Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony with Tom Stoppard and André Previn's 1977 musical play "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," a satirical attack on the Soviet practice of imprisoning dissidents in mental asylums.

Women's rights activists have used the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, which ends on Saturday, to call for stronger penalties against the perpetrators of "honour" crimes and to end the practice of imprisoning women at risk of being killed for their own protection.

(The common practice of denying imprisoned offenders the right to vote whilst they are in prison, and perhaps even after they leave prison, is symbolically significant in this context: those who would argue that punishment should be consistent with recognised citizenship should also oppose such practices; see Lippke 2001b; Journal of Applied Philosophy 2005).

This week alone, in an extraordinary expression of the power of nonviolence, a 66-day hunger strike by one jailed Palestinian forced Israelis, for the first time, to truly face and begin to debate the carefully hidden practice of administrative detention, imprisoning Palestinians without trial, criminal indictment or other due process.

In a flagrant exploitation of imprisoned children's rights, the investigation found that the continuing and voluminous practice of dispensing psychiatric drugs to child inmates represents "substantial departures from generally accepted professional standards".

The administration welcomed the release of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

"Vast forces dormant in nuggets of imprisoned sunlight?