Freedom Day rally of protest against "mass repressions by the Federal Drug Circulation Supervision Service" took part in Novopushkin garden in Moscow.
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Moscow City Duma Applies Force to Drug Addicts
// Moscow adopted law “About drug abuse prevention”
Moscow Duma deputies adopted the law “About drug abuse prevention” yesterday. The law will come into force in a month, enabling Moscow employers and doctors to send citizens to compulsory medical examination for drug addiction. Experts believe it will not solve the issue of drug abuse in the capital, but will only lead to purges.
Moscow City Duma deputies adopted the law “About drug abuse prevention” in the third reading yesterday. Employers will receive the right to send employees to compulsory medical examination for drug addiction, if there arises suspicion that an employee is in the state of drug intoxication at the work place.
The same approach will be applied in hospitals and clinics. So far, until the law has not come into force (it will happen in about a month), only judges and law-enforcement officers have the right to send citizens to the medical procedure.
Human rights defenders say the law will not help to combat drug addiction. They say that compulsory medical examination will “allow some citizens to apply measures of forced medical pressure to other people, which is illegal”.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 01, 2007
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